Why am I unable to display ASCII characters between 128 and 255 in MATLAB 6.5 (R13) on Linux?

When I attempt to insert ASCII characters between 128 and 255 such as the degree symbol into figures as labels, MATLAB hangs.

Answer 1

[MathWorks Support Team]

The ability to insert ASCII characters between 128 and 255 into MATLAB is not available in MATLAB 6.5 (R13).

To work around this issue, it is necessary to set the $LANG environmental variable to specify an 8-bit character set. For example, use the following C shell command:

 setenv LANG c

This allows the use of ASCII characters between 128 and 255.

See the below under Related Solutions for further possible workarounds.