Why are foreign characters substituted by square symbols in the MATLAB Editor/Debugger in MATLAB 7.0 (R14) on Linux?

I have created a file in MATLAB 7.0 (R14) on Windows XP with comments containing the foreign characters å, ä and ö. If I open this file in the MATLAB Editor/Debugger on Linux, the foreign characters are substituted by square symbols.

Answer 1

[MathWorks Support Team]

This issue is caused by different codeset settings on Windows XP and Linux. You can work around this issue by changing the locale on the Linux machine.

setenv LANG en_US.ISO8859-1

The locale name might vary on each platform, and installed locale may vary on each system.