Re: [Matplotlib-users] Display chinese labels

2010-10-14 Thread Benoit Gaillard
""" fontname="WenQuanYi Zen Hei" """ I can now display the characters and save the plots as pdf. Thanks a lot for you wise help, i learned a lot. Benoit Quoting sunqiang : > On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Benoit Gaillard > wrote: >> Actual

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Display chinese labels

2010-10-13 Thread Benoit Gaillard
font is missing table" Is that due to my changing the font name from *.ttc to *.ttf? regards, benoit Quoting Benoit Gaillard : > Hi, > > When looking in my fontFile.cache, i did not find any of > '/usr/share/fonts/truetype/wqy/wqy-zenhei.ttf', > '/usr/share/fo

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Display chinese labels

2010-10-13 Thread Benoit Gaillard
"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-s

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Display chinese labels

2010-10-12 Thread Benoit Gaillard
t; 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 >

[Matplotlib-users] Display chinese labels

2010-10-11 Thread Benoit Gaillard
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 exa