Hello.
I've been having trouble getting Unicode characters to render. I just
get a box in the title of my figure, rather than the character I need.
Here is my code:
#!/usr/bin/env python
from pylab import *
plot([1,2,3,4])
title(u"\u0251")
savefig("test.eps")
savefig("test.png")
show()
That character is LATIN SMALL LETTER ALPHA. It's used in the
International Phonetic Alphabet.
I'm on Linux and I'm using matplotlib 0.90.1-2 (debian package
version). I have a few TTF fonts in my system that contain that
glyph. One is 'Arial Unicode MS', which I copied from my windows
machine.
As you can see, I will need to generate an EPS that renders the
character... That EPS file will be imported into MS Word on a Windows
PC and printed.
I will happily use any solution that allows me to use that character
in the final product... :) It doesn't have to be unicode..
I believe that my fonts are configured correctly on this Linux
system--I can use the Arial Unicode MS font in Open Office. However,
I'm not sure that MPL is finding them.
When I point the TTFPATH environment variable a directory that only
contains ARIALUNI.TTF, I get gibberish for all characters in my
figure.
When I use ~/.matplotlib/matplotlibrc to list Arial Unicode MS as the
only font in the san-serif family, I don't observe any change in the
text in the figure.
...I did successfully instantiate an FT2FONT object out of my
ARIALUNI.TTF file, but, I didn't know what to do with it at that
point.
Help?
Cheers,
--Dave Loyall
Omaha, Nebraska, USA
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