I am having trouble figuring out how to change the
encoding used to display strings. I am using Octave 3.2.0 on Windows XP, and it
seems to use the antique US-DOS character encoding. I’m reading strings
from a file, which uses a different character encoding, and would like these to
be displayed correctly. How do I change the encoding Octave uses to display
strings? NB: this is not multibyte Unicode; the encoding is 8-bit.
For example in most modern 8-bit Western encodings, the
degree symbol is at 0xB0. Octave instead displays the DOS “light
shade” graphical character. How do I fix this?