Re: utf-8 description (specify to use utf-8 without BOM)

[sfeam (E. Merritt) <eam...@gm...>]

On Tuesday, January 25, 2011, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> I don't know enough about gnuplot's source, so I don't know how
> difficult it is to change it, but if there is no problem to support
> comments (in both data files and scripts), I don't see why ignoring
> the first two bytes would not be doable. I consider it "equally hard".

If you want to experiment with that approach,  you can find the
relevant switch statement at line 201 of scanner.c (scanner):

            switch (expression[current]) {
            case '#':           /* DFK: add comments to gnuplot */
                goto endline;   /* ignore the rest of the line */
            case '^':
            case '+':

That isn't going to help with data files, however.
Only with command lines that unexpectedly contain the BOM sequence.