How to configure MATLAB to display Russian (Cyrillic) characters correctly in figures on Linux?
I have installed MATLAB R2008b on Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS and Windows XP. The system locale in Ubuntu is Unicode en_US.UTF-8.
For Windows compatibility, I run MATLAB on Ubuntu with the ru_RU.CP1251 locale - so I have a simple script to start MATLAB:
cat /opt/MATLAB_R2008b/bin/matlab-run
#!/bin/bash
export LANG="ru_RU.CP1251";
export LC_ALL="ru_RU.CP1251";
/opt/MATLAB_R2008b/bin/matlab -desktop
The slCharacterEncoding and ('DefaultCharacterSet') function then returns the expected windows-1251 as expected.
There are many fonts on my system, almost all support Russian (Cyrillic) glyphs. Russian text is usually displayed in uicontrol (see screenshot 
)
uicontrol('String','=Russian','Position',[0 0 200 200])
but does not contain labels and headers, so
x = linspace(0,2*pi,100); y = sin(x);
xlabel('x, ','interpreter','none');
ylabel('y, sin(x)','interpreter','none');
title('y, sin(x)','interpreter','none');
produce incorrect characters in labels and title 
.
I have no idea how to fix this. How to configure MATLAB to display Russian (Cyrillic) characters correctly in figures on Linux?
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I solved my problem.
I installed all the fonts recommended - packages xfonts-100dpi
, xfonts-75dpi
, xfonts-cyrillic
, t1-cyrillic
, cm-super
, ttf-freefont
, gsfonts-x11
.
But what's interesting is that these fonts only work for UTF-8, so I can use the following fonts to display Russian (Cyrillic) text in numbers:
- clean
- free vanguard
- free bookmaker
- free office
- free courier
- free helium
- free paladin
- free study book
- free time
- oldslavic
- tahoma guap
- Commands
- terminus
For my original problem, I found a custom ttf-font file that works as expected and the Russian (Cyrillic) text looks as expected in CP / Windows-1251 Font.
I put this font /usr/local/share/fonts/truetype
, launched mkfontscale
, mkfontdir
and fc-cache -vf
adding this place /etc/X11/xorg.conf
:
Section "Files"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/truetype"
FontPath "/usr/local/share/fonts/truetype"
EndSection
...
I installed language-pack-ru
and edited /var/lib/locales/supported.d/local
as follows:
en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
ru_RU ISO-8859-5
ru_RU.CP1251 CP1251
ru_RU.KOI8-R KOI8-R
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