I try to use Hebrew characters in a Matlab figure plot on my Ubuntu to no avail. I tried:
text(0.6,0.5,'ירוק','fontname','times new roman','rotation',180,'fontsize',50,'color','r')
and
title('ירוק','fontname','times new roman','fontsize',50,'color','r')
similar to what was proposed in the answer to this question. I got garbled text (see attached image).
Matlab is in version R2009b. Of course I'm set to UTF-8 encoding.
>> slCharacterEncoding
ans =
UTF-8
I also have access to a remote computer via ssh, with version R2011a. That didn't work either. (There I had to slCharacterEncoding('UTF-8'))
The other option, using a javax.swing.JLabel component, is too difficult to use with the amount of graphing I have.
I can continue producing graphs with English axes and titles, but that's a pity. Any advice?
Edit: as suggested by Egon, if I can print -deps and then replace the text (from code within Matlab) in the resulting EPS file, that's pretty cool too. But I don't know how to place Unicode in EPS and I think that's stretching it...
Yet another edit: I'm starting to think this is an X-server issue. Though different, I wouldn't be surprised if these issues are related: