Re: [Matplotlib-users] unicode filenames and MPL.

[Christopher B. <Chr...@no...>]

Michael Droettboom wrote:
> I think the real reason this wasn't done is that its tricky to do at the 
> C level in a cross-platform way.  At present it uses the regular POSIX 
> fopen in C, which isn't really "Unicode aware".

The actual error is from trying to put the filename in a std::string, 
but yes, I'm sure the fopen issue is the driver. Does C++ offer anything 
better?

   See the "Unicode
> filenames" section of the link below for some of the complications.  
> Linux is particularly hard to get right:
> 
> http://www.amk.ca/python/howto/unicode

Thanks, that's a good one.

 >  you can do the following as a workaround
> (with a performance hit from making many Python function calls):
> 
>   savefig(open(u"CrazyUnicodeFilename.png", "w"))

thanks, I'll give that a try. I'm confused, though, why the many Python 
function calls? the C++ code doesn't just grab the file pointer?

Thanks,
-Chris


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