>> Hello, >> >> I'm a french user and I'm trying to put an 'é' into a pylab title. >> My locales and fully utf-8 and the code is the following under ipthon: >> import pylab >> a="é" >> pylab.plot([1]) >> pylab.title(a) >> >> raises the error : >> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 0: >> ordinal not in range(128) >> > > Have you tried using a Unicode string as input? e.g. > > a = u"é" > > That works for me, though it stops at the LaTeX step because I'm missing > some LaTeX packages. > > >> Is it a bug or a I doing something wrong? I'm using up to date pylab svn >> with the tk backend. >> >> The prolem is that only the tk backend is fully functionnal on my box. >> HTe gtk one never shows the buttons (debian up to date sid). >> > > The Tk backend is treating your input string as Latin-1, not UCS, which > is the same for codepoints < 255, so you got lucky. > > There are probably a few of these encoding bugs in various backends that > should probably be worked through. > > Cheers, > Mike > >
With a = u"é" I get no error but also nothing as a title. No strange characters. Nothing. Xavier -- ############################################ Xavier Gnata CRAL - Observatoire de Lyon 9, avenue Charles André 69561 Saint Genis Laval cedex Phone: +33 4 78 86 85 28 Fax: +33 4 78 86 83 86 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ############################################ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
