Re: [Matplotlib-users] dates.py and e.g. French month names

[Florent R. <f.r...@fr...>]

Hi,

"Werner F. Bruhin" <wer...@fr...> wrote:

> The solution which works for me is to "import locale" and get the default
> encoding from it.  I have tested it on both Win XP and 2000 and it works for
> me, i.e. in English locale I get "Dec" and in French locale I get "déc." etc.
> without the correction I would get a graphic sign for the "é".

Successfully tested on Linux with LC_TIME=fr_FR.

> The only two changes needed to dates.py are:
>
> import locale
>
> and change
>
> return dt.strftime(fmt)

There are several other uses of strftime. Maybe some of them should be
changed, also...

-- 
Florent