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GNUPlot character encoding/locales

[John C. S. <sp...@ly...>]

Hello,

When passing scripts to GNUPlot, I find that it does not understand
things like using 3,1415 instead of 3.1415, so I convert all such
numeric expressions to the 'C' locale style.

This leads me to a more general question: is there a standard for
character encoding of strings in GNUPlot?  Does it depend at all on the
selected locale, or is it always iso-8859-1 or UTF-8 or so?  Does it
depend on the terminal used for output?

Cheers,
John

Re: GNUPlot character encoding/locales

[Hans-Bernhard B. <br...@ph...>]

John C. Spray wrote:
> This leads me to a more general question: is there a standard for
> character encoding of strings in GNUPlot?  Does it depend at all on the
> selected locale, or is it always iso-8859-1 or UTF-8 or so?  Does it
> depend on the terminal used for output?

'help encoding' will tell you most there is to know about that, as far 
as the gnuplot core goes.  The rest is terminal-specific.

Re: GNUPlot character encoding/locales

[John C. S. <sp...@ly...>]

On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 17:44 +0000, John C. Spray wrote:
> When passing scripts to GNUPlot, I find that it does not understand
> things like using 3,1415 instead of 3.1415, so I convert all such
> numeric expressions to the 'C' locale style.

Hmmm, I just realised that I'm still calling it GNUPlot, and caught some
flack for that last time I posted to this list...

*ducks*

John