Hi, When looking in my fontFile.cache, i did not find any of '/usr/share/fonts/truetype/wqy/wqy-zenhei.ttf', '/usr/share/fonts/truetype/wqy/wqy-microhei.ttf' or simhei. this is why i could not display the characters.
I deleted the cache and re-lounched my script, so that mpl had to look for the fonts and update the cache. It added the simhei fonts to the list. I can now display chinese characters with the simhei font. I ran into 2 more issues: - Simhei "has no glyph names", which prevents me from exporting into pdf - I do not manage to make mpl take into account microhei and zenhei, whereas i have them in '/usr/share/fonts/truetype/wqy/wqy-microhei.ttc'. I changed their name to '/usr/share/fonts/truetype/wqy/wqy-microhei.ttf', and now mpl finds them. However they fail to display chinese characters So, thank you for your help, i managed to display chinese characters but there are still some issues. Do you have any idea? Benoit Quoting sunqiang <sunqi...@gmail.com>: > 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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