Hello c, On Friday, January 1, 2016 at 5:01:37 AM UTC+1, Alex Dowling wrote: > > I'd like to use a unicode character as a marker in plots created with > PyPlot. Here is a minimal code example: > > x = [ 0 1 2] > y = x > scatter(x,y,marker="\U0001F4A7") > > which produces the following error: > > >
> My questions: > > 1. Any suggestions regarding the error above? > > as far as i can see the mathplotlib documentation about scatter and entries in marker (http://matplotlib.org/api/markers_api.html#module-matplotlib.markers) there are only certain entries in marker allowed and no free text. If you have a limited set of x,y you could use pyplot.text which handles local coordinates and unicode text.
