Fix gnuplot --version encoding handling on Windows #755
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In some configurations,
gnuplot --version
will emit output as UTF-16 bytes instead of UTF-8. This is not expected byparse_version()
which always expects UTF-8.This change enhances
parse_version()
with a simple fallback - if UTF-8 parsing fails, it will try again with UTF-16.Fixes #570.