That is correct. Matplotlib doesn't have font substitution support --
it only ever uses a single font for each text object. You will need to
use separate text objects to do this kind of multi-lingual text, unless
you can find a single font with all of the glyphs.
Mike
On 11/24/2010 10:19 PM
Unfortunately, matplotlib does not support fontset, and only a single
font file can be used at a time.
If you need to to use multiple fonts within a single text string, the
only workaround I can think of is to use the offsetbox module to make
a text for each font and concatenate them. If you're in