User`s guide

Desktop Tools and Development Environment
8-3
Editor
New Desktop features and changes introduced in this version are:
Automatically Renaming All Variables and Functions in File
Under certain conditions, as you rename a variable or function, a tooltip opens. The
tooltip indicates that MATLAB can rename all instances of the function or variable in
the current file. This is helpful in preventing errors that result if you change names
manually and overlook or mistype one or more instances of the name. For a video
overview, watch this video demo
For details, including the circumstances under which MATLAB prompts you, see
Automatically Rename All Functions or Variables in a File.
Internationalization
Displaying Multilingual Characters on Mac OS X Platforms
On Apple Mac OS X platforms, you might see garbled text if you try to use multilingual
characters. Suppose you create a variable in the MATLAB command window containing
multilingual characters. You can type the multilingual characters, but if you display the
contents of the variable, the characters are corrupted.
MATLAB text files include scripts and user-defined functions and classes. MATLAB
displays characters in a text file using an encoding scheme, which is defined in the
MathWorks locale database. This encoding scheme supports characters for the language
specified by the user locale setting. If you try to use multilingual characters in a text