Re: [Matplotlib-users] unicode encoding support

[Jean-Michel P. <jea...@ar...>]

jdh...@ac... a écrit :
> We are in favor of unicode support in agg, we just haven't had the
> time, knowledge or man-power to do it.  fonts are hard, as you
> probably know, and we have to figure out the right handling in
> freetype and the ft2font wrapper, in the pycxx extension generating
> code, and in the font manager.  All manageable, but tough.

It sounds good and I know this is a hard job even if I have no idea of 
how things get work in matplotlib! Having unicode without Agg is already 
great to me.

> 
> Have you seen the accented character demo?
> 
>   http://matplotlib.sf.net/examples/accented_text.py

Yes I have but was a little bit disappointed since this nested 
expression fails (matplotlib 0.72):

\rm{\acute{e}}

> Hopefully, someone (maybe you <wink>) will find the time to tackle
> unicode support for ft2font, font_manager, and backend_agg in the
> not-too-distant-future.
> 
> JDH

Believe me I would really be glad to participate to the matplotlib 
source code. Unfortunately I don't think I have the required skills 
(unless you know some introducing pages that could change my opinion?) 
and my company - a research centre - isn't mature enough to let us 
participate to open source :-(. It is even hard to make people accept 
open source software for everyday use... They don't feel secure if do 
not pay for!


JM. Philippe