encodings -- Re: pm3d for emf ...

[Petr M. <mi...@ph...>]

> If I, sitting at a gnuplot session on my UTF-8 terminal, type "set 
> encoding cp852" and then type in a bunch of non-ascii characters, any 
> output file I produce will be internally inconsistent. It will claim at 
> the top that it is cp852, but the actual contents will be UTF-8.  That's 
> why I want to deprecate the "set encoding" command.  It does not really 
> set the encoding, it just provides instructions to some other program, and 
> those instructions may or may not be correct. It would be better to 
> enforce consistency by specifying the actual current encoding in the 
> output file, as taken from the current locale.


Then don't write this command if it is wrong.

If I take an older file from my OS/2 times with cp852, and pass it through 
gnuplot, I expected there will be the same output. Not that it will use UTF8 
encoding of my Linux box. Same for files copied from a current Windows box.

Gnuplot should behave like TeX or HTML files for ages: belive the inputenc 
or codepage written in the file header.
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