Re: [Matplotlib-users] problem with a umlaut

[Michael D. <md...@st...>]

Which backend are you using?  I can't reproduce.  Does

https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/blob/master/examples/text_labels_and_annotations/unicode_demo.py

work for you?

Mike

On 05/15/2013 06:40 AM, Ojala Janne wrote:
> I have a weird problem with Unicode strings. I am using windows 7 with
> Python 2.7.2 64 bit, and matplotlib 1.2.1 (package from Unofficial Windows
> Binaries at http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#matplotlib ).
>
> When i run:
>      -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
>      import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
>
>      fig = plt.figure( )
>
>      ax = fig.add_subplot(111)
>      ax.hist([1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10], bins=range(1,11) )
>
>      plt.ylabel(u'ä')
>      fig.savefig('test.eps')
>
> I get a crash:
>
>> pythonw -u "bugtest.py"
>> Exit code: -1073740777
> but if i modify my code to read:
>      -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
>      import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
>
>      fig = plt.figure( )
>
>      ax = fig.add_subplot(111)
>      ax.hist([1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10], bins=range(1,11) )
>
>      plt.ylabel(u'äł')
>      fig.savefig('test.eps')
>
> Then no longer crashes. Why is it that "a umlaut" alone crashes
> but when the string contains a "l stroke" character the Unicode string
> behaves fine. In both cases it works fine if I show the plot but not when
> I write eps either in code or when saving.
>
>
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