Unrecognized characters

On editor or command window the characters are OK, but not in the figure.

When I enter

figure
text(0.5,0.5,'testing characters a, á, ã, â')

I get "testing characters a, Ãi, ã, â" on my figure

How can I solve it?

Thank you RP

[Sean de Wolski]

Copying and pasting what you have works fine on my system - Windows R2011b.

[Sven]

Me too - no problem with encoding on Win7, R2011b.

You say it looks fine on the command line... what happens when you run:

figure, t = text(0.5,0.5,'test a, á, ã, â')

get(t,'String')

?

[R P]

ans=

test a, á, ã, â

(and the characters in the figure are not recognized)

ps-I'm running Matlab in Linux

[R P]

Additionally, the 'Font Size' property of TEXT function is ignored...

[R P]

Other user with a similar problem (from http://www.mofeel.net/582-comp-soft-sys-matlab/159936.aspx) :

I have an erratic behavior on mac os x 10.6, and R2010a regarding options in fonts.

figure(1)

clf

colormap gray

imagesc(d)

title('Unfiltered image','FontWeight','bold')

xlabel('X (px)','fontweight','bold')

ylabel('Y (px)','fontweight','bold')

Whatever options I choose in title and labels, they are either ignored, or partially ignored. In this example, only the ylabel is plotted as bold.

Any idea what could be causing this ?