Re: AW: filenames on MS Windows

[Allin C. <cot...@wf...>]

On Mon, 2 Nov 2020, Ethan A Merritt wrote:

> On Monday, 2 November 2020 01:48:42 PST Bastian Märkisch wrote:
>> Right now, gnuplot is able to "load" file names with Unicode encoded names, i.e. the sequence
>> 	set encoding utf8
>> 	load 'абвгдежзийклмнопрстуфхцчшщъыьэюяѐёђѓєѕіїјљњћќѝўџ.plt'
>> will work just fine.
>
> But only if the encoding is set to utf8, right?
> Which is a bit counter-intuitive since on Windows the
> filename is not actually utf8.

Counter-intuitive maybe, but it's very convenient. "set encoding 
utf8" announces that filenames in the gnuplot script will be UTF-8 
encoded (and the script will be readable cross-platform), but thanks 
to Bastian gnuplot knows they need to be recoded in the background 
to UTF-16 for reading from disk on Windows.

-- 
Allin Cottrell
Department of Economics
Wake Forest University