Why Matlab does not show the special characters (e.g.: 'ç' or 'º')

Hello people,

My problem is, when I try to put special characters in matlab, it never shows the correct character.

e.g.: legend('Estação') is shows EstaÃSÃSo

What should I do ?

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

I do not know why, but only characters with codes up to 255 can appear at the best of times.

The example you show works fine for me in R2012a.

You might need to change your configured character set to EN_US to get it to work for you. You could get the effect you see if those characters are being coded as UTF-8 for you.

[Arthur Melo]

What can I do to repair it ?

[Walter Roberson]

Not an explicit answer, but related postings:

http://www.mathworks.co.uk/matlabcentral/answers/12902-problem-viewing-product-help-and-function-browser-on-matlab-2011a-unreadable-text#answer_18223

http://www.mathworks.co.uk/matlabcentral/answers/12422-macosx-encoding-problem