Re: [Matplotlib-users] Using non ascii characters

[BL <bra...@gm...>]

> To use non-ascii characters, you need prefix the string literal with a
> 'u'.  For example:

I thought that the u"string" notation was only needed when characters had to
be handled with their utf-8 code


Replacing the r's with u's in the strings in your example solves the
> problem for me on 0.91.2.  (I wasn't able to test 0.90.1 -- that still
> may have internal problems handling Unicode strings in some backends.)


This works fine for me with the SVN version (matplotlib :  0.98pre) but not
with matplotlib 0.90.1

Thanks