--- /dev/null
+# Ethan A Merritt - April 2006
+#
+# Test/Demonstration of UTF-8 support by gnuplot terminals.
+#
+# First we dump all 7-bit characters by octal code value, then display a
+# selection of 8-bit unicode (UTF-8) characters from various code points.
+#
+# This will only produce reasonable output if the current gnuplot
+# terminal supports multi-byte ("wide") characters and the current
+# font contains the corresponding UTF-8 encoded characters maps.
+#
+# Some possible terminal + font selections are:
+#
+# set term x11 font "mbfont:sazanami mincho,vera,20"
+# set term png font "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/arialuni.ttf" 13
+# set term wxt
+#
+#
+set label 100 at screen 0.5, 0.95 center
+set label 100 "Dump 7-bit characters and a selection of UTF-8 unicode characters"
+#
+set border 0
+unset xtics
+unset ytics
+#
+set label 101 "001-040:" at screen 0.05, 0.80
+set label 102 "041-100:" at screen 0.05, 0.75
+set label 103 "101-140:" at screen 0.05, 0.70
+set label 104 "141-177:" at screen 0.05, 0.65
+#
+set label 1 at screen 0.2, 0.80
+set label 2 at screen 0.2, 0.75
+set label 3 at screen 0.2, 0.70
+set label 4 at screen 0.2, 0.65
+set label 5 at screen 0.2, 0.55
+set label 6 at screen 0.2, 0.50
+set label 7 at screen 0.2, 0.45
+set label 8 at screen 0.2, 0.40
+set label 9 at screen 0.2, 0.35
+set label 10 at screen 0.2, 0.30
+set label 11 at screen 0.2, 0.25
+set label 12 at screen 0.2, 0.20
+#
+set label 1 "\001\002\003\004\005\006\007\010\011 \013\014\015\016\017\020\021\022\023\024\025\026\027\030\031\032\033\034\035\036\037\040"
+set label 2 "\041\042\043\044\045\046\047\050\051\052\053\054\055\056\057\060\061\062\063\064\065\066\067\070\071\072\073\074\075\076\077\100"
+set label 3 "\101\102\103\104\105\106\107\110\111\112\113\114\115\116\117\120\121\122\123\124\125\126\127\130\131\132\133\134\135\136\137\140"
+set label 4 "\141\142\143\144\145\146\147\150\151\152\153\154\155\156\157\160\161\162\163\164\165\166\167\170\171\172\173\174\175\176\177"
+
+set label 5 "¡¢£¤¥¦§¨©ª«¬®¯°±²³´µ¶·¸¹º»¼½¾¿ €"
+set label 6 "ÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÐÑ àáâãäåæçèéêëìíîïðñ"
+set label 7 "αβγδεζηθικλμνξοπρςστυφχψωϑϖ"
+set label 8 "абвгдежзийклмнопрстуфхцчшщъыьэюяѐёђѓєѕіїјљњћќѝўџ"
+set label 9 "∀∂∃∇∈∋√∞∧∨∩∪∫⊂⊃⊆⊇⊥"
+set label 10 "◎▲△▼▽☉☿♀♁♂♃♄♅♆♇♈♉♊♋♌♍♎♏♐♑"
+set label 11 "日本語フォント かな 漢字"
+set label 12 "אבגדהוזחטיךכלםמןנסעףפץצקרשת"
+#
+set xrange [-1:1]
+set yrange [-1:1]
+plot -10 notitle
+reset