[Gretl-users] gnuplot command

[Allin Cottrell]

On Tue, 8 May 2007, Sven Schreiber wrote:

> Allin Cottrell schrieb:
> 
> > Thanks.  I see what the problem is: it's the "display name" of the 
> > y variable, namely "Quantité d'engrais".  The embedded "'" causes 
> > trouble when gretl writes (for gnuplot):
> > 
> > I'll fix this, 
> 
> Does this mean I can write "Gauß'sche" in the German translation again? ;-)

Yes, that should work now.

> Or to put it more seriously: what is the limitation of gnuplot 
> in terms of characters?

Single quotes or apostrophes are now OK, double quotes are not OK.  

Gnuplot doesn't do proper i18n so handling the encoding/recoding 
when interfacing with gnuplot is a bit of a nightmare.  I've 
patched up a few things today, but I can't guarantee that things 
will work with the full generality that one would like.

Allin.