I am using the AGG backend and I am having issues with displaying unicode
characters in MPL on a Linux box. Instead of the actual character I see only
a placeholder/square symbol. E.g. the following command
text(0.5, 0.5, u'\u03bb')
correctly shows the small greek letter lambda on my windows machine, but on
Linux, I get only a placeholder. I also tried
text(0.5, 0.5, u'\u03bb'.encode('utf8'))
and some other encodings but the result is the same. The python default
encoding is UTF-8 on both systems.
Is this maybe due to the font not being able to display this character (not
sure whether different fonts are used on different OSs) or am I making some
encoding mistake?
Thanks in advance,
Sascha
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