Matlab × symbol does not show correctly in Julia on Windows

[musm]

Seems to be only an issue on windows. Look at ZData: [1�0 double] On linux this shows correctly 1×0

julia> using MATLAB
julia> x = linspace(0,1,10)
julia> eval_string("h=plot($x)")

h =

  Line with properties:

              Color: [0 0.4470 0.7410]
          LineStyle: '-'
          LineWidth: 0.8000
             Marker: 'none'
         MarkerSize: 6
    MarkerFaceColor: 'none'
              XData: [1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10]
              YData: [0 0.1111 0.2222 0.3333 0.4444 0.5556 0.6667 0.7778 0.8889 1]
              ZData: [1�0 double]

[musm]

Any clues why such behavior would be exhibited on windows only. Presumably mac is also correct.

[twadleigh]

I would guess you are using a not-particularly-unicode-friendly font on windows. I have had to hack the registry to get DejaVu Sans Mono into the console.

[musm]

On the preview versions of Windows 10, DejaVu Sans Mono is an available command prompt font. Perhaps there are some more subtle font interaction problems?

[twadleigh]

Checked it out myself. I see this, too.

[musm]

Somehow this is related to engEvalString and here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15735072/get-matlab-engine-to-return-unicode I'm not sure if that really provides any solutions we can use

another case (but perhaps more expected)

julia> s = MATLAB.eval_string("s='Paul Erdős'")
julia> @mget s
"Paul Erdős"

[musm]

So it seems that we may have to enforce the locale on windows/osx feature('DefaultCharacterSet', 'UTF-8')

[musm]

Example

julia> using MATLAB

julia>  mat" feature('DefaultCharacterSet')"
"windows-1252"

julia> MATLAB.eval_string("s = 'Erdős'")
s =
    'Erdős'

julia> mat"s = 'Erdős'"

julia> get_variable(:s)
"Erdős"   # WRONG

# LET'S FORCE UTF8 in MATLAB
julia>  mat" feature('DefaultCharacterSet', 'UTF-8')"
"windows-1252"

julia> mat"s = 'Erdős'"


julia> MATLAB.eval_string("s = 'Erdős'")
s =
    'Erd→s'


julia> get_variable(:s)
"Erdős"  # Yay