2011/8/15 Michael Droettboom <md...@stsci.edu>: > On 08/14/2011 11:28 AM, Vlastimil Brom wrote: >> ... >> Is there maybe some mechanism available in matplotlib, which would >> select the appropriate font for the given characters? (Like in wx or, >> even more powerful in tk?) Or is it the expected way to set the >> suitable font individually, as only the font list in rcParams are >> tried sequentially - regardless of the character support? > That's correct: matplotlib doesn't currently do this. It renders a > particular string of text with a single font and does not do font > substitution for characters that are not in that font. The best > practice is to use a font that contains the full set of characters, such > as Arial or Deja Vu as you've discovered. > > There a lot of other i18n shortcomings to the way matplotlib supports > text (such as a lack of bidi support). That's a large wheel to > reinvent, so the solution would involve using a third-party text layout > library such as pango, but I know there is licensing friction against > that. It may be worth revisiting that at some point. > > Mike > > Thanks for the confirmation, I'll stick with this apporoach, as I didn't manage to fix the code for wx backend on the newest version (cf. above). Given the status of the non-Agg backends it might be more appropriate.
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