Re: [Gnuplot-info] set encoding and data file input

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

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> > 
> > But what if the file contains string columns -
> > do they get interpreted differently, based on
> > set encoding? 
> 
> Yes and no.
> The individual "words" will get read in and stored no matter
> what the encoding.  But the program needs to know the encoding
> in order to operate on them properly.  For example:
> 
> set encoding iso_8859_1    # This is wrong
> test = "αβγδεζηθ"
> print test			# This works because the whole
> thing is spit out print test[2:2]		# This fails because
> the encoding is wrong print test[3:4]		# As does this
> 
> set encoding utf8			# this fixes it
> print test[2:2]
> print test [3:4]
> 
> 
> > And can I generally rely on 
> > gnuplot to handle multi-byte characters safely
> > (that is, recognize them as multibyte and store
> > them accordingly)?
> 
> UTF8 - yes
> shift-JIS - I think so but I don't use it myself
> other - untested
> 

Many thanks, very helpful!