Problems with loading gnuplot scripts on OS X (10.9.5)

Question

I have problems with command 'load'. For example my script is something like this:

set xlabel ‘blabla’

But when i try to load this, I get:

load '/Users/.../gnuplot.txt'
                 ^
     "/Users/.../gnuplot.txt", line 1: invalid character ?

I figured out that adding "reset" before the whole script change the error message:

set xlabel ‘blabla’
                 ^
     "/Users/.../gnuplot.txt", line 2: invalid character ?

But when I write everithing into the terminal by myself, I get no errors...

Any idea how to fix it??

Thanks

Christoph · Accepted Answer · 2014-10-12 12:57:36Z

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You are using the wrong quotation marks (Left and Right single quotation marks, codepoints U+2018 and U+2019).

You must use ASCII single or double quotation marks, either ' (0x27) or " (0x22).

edited Oct 12, 2014 at 12:57

answered Oct 12, 2014 at 11:34

Christoph

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Jan Over a year ago

Yes, this was the problem! I used Plain Text Editor instead of TextEdit and suddenly everything works fine! Thanks a lot :)

Mark Setchell · Accepted Answer · 2014-10-12 07:52:52Z

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Try putting this line before your load command

set encoding utf8

The invalid character smacks of using the wrong character set.

answered Oct 12, 2014 at 7:52

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Jan Over a year ago

I tried what you've suggested but unfortunately, results are still same... But thanks for your effort :)

Mark Setchell Over a year ago

It looks like you have invalid characters in your file gnuplot.txt. Try running cat -vet gnuplot.txt and looking for anything weird. Click edit under your question and paste the output of the command above.

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