[Gnuplot-info] set encoding and data file input

[Philipp K. J. <ja...@ie...>]

I understand that choosing the correct encoding 
is important when creating text labels (and so
on) with characters outside the ASCII range.

But how does gnuplot treat non-ASCII characters
on input, that is, when reading a file in
	plot "file" u 3:4

I guess it's somewhat of a non-issue, as long as
all the data in the file is numeric - that can 
be represented with strict ASCII. 

But what if the file contains string columns -
do they get interpreted differently, based on
set encoding? And can I generally rely on 
gnuplot to handle multi-byte characters safely
(that is, recognize them as multibyte and store
them accordingly)?

Best,

		Ph.