UNIX
On UNIX systems, MATLAB supports the ISO Latin-1 primary character set. For example, suppose a text object is created with these commands:
h = text(0.1,0.1,'some text');
set(h,'FontName','Times');
There might be several X Window System fonts with the name "Times." MATLAB tries to find a font that supports the primary ISO Latin-1 character set. For backward compatibility, this preference is ranked below any other specifications you provide, such as the font size, style, and so forth. ISO Latin-1 fonts have an X font specification that ends in iso8859-1, which is the formal name of the ISO Latin-1 character set. Here is an example of such a font specification:
-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1
You can use xlsfonts at the UNIX prompt to list the set of fonts available on your system.
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