Question

I would like to call something like

xlabel( 'Time (μs)' );  

But that just shows up with a question mark on the plot. Is there anyway to have the unicode show up?

Answer 1

For your specific example, you can get the display you want using TeX\LaTeX formatting:

xlabel('Time ({\mu}s)');

For the more general case of displaying Unicode characters, if you know the code for your character you can convert the decimal value for the code to a character using the function char and build a string like so:

xlabel(['Time (' char(181) 's)']);  % Same results as above