Re: st: -graph export-, eps and euro sign

[Antoine Terracol <terracol@univ-paris1.fr>]

Thanks Sergiy,

using LaTeX, the following document, compiled and converted to .ps :

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{eurosym}
\begin{document}
\euro{}
\end{document}

shows a nice Euro symbol in GSview, but the actual code in the .ps file 
is is bunch of lines (around 70 of them) like

D9D66F633B846A97B686A97E45A3D0AA052A014267B7904EB3C0D3BD0B83D891
016CA6CA4B712ADEB258FAAB9A130EE605E61F77FC1B738ABC7C51CD46EF8171
9098D5FEE67660E69A7AB91B58F29A4D79E57022F783EB0FBBB6D4F4EC35014F
D2DECBA99459A4C59DF0C6EBA150284454E707DC2100C15B76B4C19B84363758
469A6C558785B226332152109871A9883487DD7710949204DDCF837E6A8708B8

so I'm not sure is it is directly usable through a simple copy and paste...

I've read somewhere that the Euro symbol appeared in PS-Adobe-3.0 ; but 
Stata (and dvips) produce PS-Adobe-2.0 code, so the problem might be 
difficult to solve.

I'll stop bothering the list with non-Stata problems and just use the 
word "Euro"...

Thanks again,

Antoine

Sergiy Radyakin wrote:
> Does GhostScript show the Euro symbol when it is output from other
> programs? Try TeX, and see if it works. If it does not, then it is not
> Stata related. If it does, check the file to see what TeX writes
> there, then do the same with your file.
>
> Regards, Sergiy Radyakin
>
> On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 12:15 PM, Antoine Terracol
> <Antoine.Terracol@univ-paris1.fr> wrote:
> > Thomas Speidel wrote:
> > > In your code graph title I see
> > >
> > > . ..., title(price in ?)
> > >
> > > I am not sure if the question mark I see in your cose is intentional or
> > > a consequence of different character/keyboard encoding.
> > keyboard encoding, sorry for this.
> >
> >
> > > The symbol for the Euro (in the ANSI encoding) is 0128.  So it should be:
> > >
> > > .twoway scatter price mpg, title("price in `=char(0128)'")
> > >
> > > I can replicate your same results after the eps is created: that is I
> > > cannot see the Euro sign in the title in GSview.  I suspect wildly that
> > > has more to do with the fonts and their encoding than Stata.
> > > Interestingly, if I place the copyright symbol in the title:
> > >
> > > twoway scatter price mpg, title("price in `=char(0169)'")
> > >
> > > The associated eps does display the Copyright symbol.  One thing to
> > > mention is that the Euro symbol was added later as part of the ANSI so
> > > that may have something to do with it.  I am sure someone has encoutered
> > > your same problem and can provide a solution.
> > Thank you very much for your explanation.
> >
> > If I look at the .eps file after creating the graph with -title("price
> > in `=char(0128)'")-, I can see that it has again been translated to
> > (price in \200).
> >
> > Interestingly, using the Copyright symbol, `=char(0169)' has been
> > translated to \251 in the .eps file.
> >
> > I think I'll just use the word "Euros" rather than the Euro symbol
> >
> > Thanks again,
> > Antoine
> >
> >
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