oh, only test it on Windows yet. both "sim hei"and "microsoft yahei" are fontname on Windows Platform. maybe just copy "Sim Hei" to font directory is not enough? no clue here.
I just test the script on Linux (Ubuntu 8.04, Python 2.5, matplotlib 0.98.4) with the follow steps: 1, find the configure directory of matplotlib import matplotlib as mpl mpl.get_configdir() return "~/.matplotlib" 2, in the configure directory, there is a file "fontList.cache" I find this (dp294 ... S'WenQuanYi Zen Hei' ... S'/usr/share/fonts/truetype/wqy/wqy-zenhei.ttf' ... I just know WenQuanYi is a "Chinese font" http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/ttf-wqy-zenhei 3, replace "Sim Hei" in your original script with "WenQuanYi Zen Hei", now it can display Chinese. both methods still work(embed fontname argument, or set mpl.rcParams['font.sans-serif']) maybe you can find a font that support Chinese character on your platform with these steps and try again? On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 10:41 PM, Benoit Gaillard <benoit.gaill...@univ-tlse2.fr> wrote: > Thank you for your help, > > but it does not seem to work. > > I have downloaded simhei fonts and added it in my directory > /usr/shared/fonts/truetype but even by using > """fontname="simhei" """, > or: > """mpl.rcParams['font.sans-serif'] = ['SimHei'] > mpl.rcParams['axes.unicode_minus'] = False """ > > i still display empty boxes instead of chinese characters. > > It is worth noting that these chinese characters print well on the console > if i add the line: > """for ytic in ytics: > print ytic""" > > Unfortunately, apart from copying lines of code, i cannot do much with the > blog you mention, as i don't understand what is written in it. > > @Mike: "monospace" family is one that enables me to display accents of > french words, for the xticks. "fantasy" family was the last family i tried > for the chinese labels, but to no success. > > So, has anyone managed to do it? Is there something i am missing?, > > regards, > > Benoit. > > Quoting sunqiang <sunqi...@gmail.com>: > >> maybe change the line >> """axim.set_yticklabels(ytics,fontsize=15,family='fantasy')""" to >> """axim.set_yticklabels(ytics,fontsize=15, fontname= "simsun (founder >> extended)")""" >> (or replace fontname with "simhei" or "microsoft yahei") is enough. >> >> >> or, put these two lines: >> mpl.rcParams['font.sans-serif'] = ['SimHei'] >> mpl.rcParams['axes.unicode_minus'] = False >> >> there is a Chinese blog (not mine) maybe worth reading: >> http://hi.baidu.com/lijiangshui/blog/item/a0aad703cd65ee7e3812bb49.html >> >> hope this help >> >> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 3:13 AM, Benoit Gaillard >> <benoit.gaill...@univ-tlse2.fr> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> How can one display Mandarin labels in a plot, as yticks_labels for >>> example? >>> It looks to me that there is no font in matplotlib that can display >>> Chinese >>> characters? I can display accentuation from 'utf8' but i could not find a >>> font family that would display Chinese characters. >>> >>> Here is an example of plot that displays empty boxes instead of Chinese >>> characters. In comments you can see various failed attempts: >>> >>> import matplotlib as mpl >>> from matplotlib import cm >>> from matplotlib import rc >>> #rc('font',**{'family':'sans-serif','sans-serif':['SimHei','Arial']}) >>> #mpl.rcParams['font.sans-serif'] = ['SimHei','Arial'] >>> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt >>> >>> matrix=[[skey+tkey for skey in [1,2]] for tkey in [1,2]] >>> fig = plt.figure() >>> axim = fig.add_subplot(111) >>> #ytics: caractères chinois en utf8 >>> ytics=['\xe6\x8a\xb1'.decode('utf8'),'\xe6\x93\x81'.decode('utf8')] >>> xtics=['d\xc3\xa9bo\xc3\xaeter'.decode('utf8'),'diviser'.decode('utf8')] >>> axim.imshow(matrix, cmap=cm.jet, interpolation='nearest',origin='lower') >>> axim.set_xticks(range(2)) >>> >>> axim.set_xticklabels(xtics,fontsize=15,rotation=25,ha='right',family='monospace') >>> axim.set_yticks(range(2)) >>> axim.set_yticklabels(ytics,fontsize=15,family='fantasy')#,fontname='AR PL >>> ungtiL GB') >>> plt.show() >>> >>> Thank you for your help, >>> >>> Benoit >>> >>> >>> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------- >>> This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. >>> >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> How can one display mandarin labels in a plot, as yticks_labels for >>> example? >>> It looks to me that there is no font in matplotlib that can display >>> chinese >>> characters? I can display accentuation from 'utf8' but i could not find a >>> font family that would display chinese characters. >>> >>> Here is an example of plot that displays empty boxes instead of chinese >>> characters. In comment you can see various failed attempts: >>> >>> import matplotlib as mpl >>> from matplotlib import cm >>> from matplotlib import rc >>> #rc('font',**{'family':'sans-serif','sans-serif':['SimHei','Arial']}) >>> #mpl.rcParams['font.sans-serif'] = ['SimHei','Arial'] >>> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt >>> >>> matrix=[[skey+tkey for skey in [1,2]] for tkey in [1,2]] >>> fig = plt.figure() >>> axim = fig.add_subplot(111) >>> #ytics: caractères chinois en utf8 >>> ytics=['\xe6\x8a\xb1'.decode('utf8'),'\xe6\x93\x81'.decode('utf8')] >>> >>> xtics=['d\xc3\xa9bo\xc3\xaeter'.decode('utf8'),'diviser'.decode('utf8')] >>> axim.imshow(matrix, cmap=cm.jet, interpolation='nearest', >>> origin='lower') >>> axim.set_xticks(range(2)) >>> axim.set_xticklabels(xtics, >>> fontsize=15,rotation=25,ha='right',family='monospace') >>> axim.set_yticks(range(2)) >>> >>> axim.set_yticklabels(ytics,fontsize=15,family='fantasy')#,fontname='AR >>> PL SungtiL GB') >>> plt.show() >>> >>> Thank you for your help, >>> >>> Benoit >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> Beautiful is writing same markup. 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