swedish letters in yticks

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Hi all

I try to use yticks as

plt.yticks(y_pos, projDescr)

where projDescr is a list of strings that contains some swedish letters, i.e. åäö, but they are not printed correctly. I have googled but can not fins a solution. Can someone point me in the right direction?

Best regards,

Johan

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2014-08-25 0:03 GMT+02:00 Johan Ekh <ekh.johan@...287...>:

Hi all

I try to use yticks as

plt.yticks(y_pos, projDescr)

where projDescr is a list of strings that contains some swedish letters,
i.e. åäö, but they are not printed correctly. I have googled but can not
fins a solution. Can someone point me in the right direction?

Best regards,
Johan

Hi,
I am not sure, whether this is the same problem I encountered with
Czech diacritics in matplotlib some time ago, but it definitively
looks similar to me.
You can check the respective thread and the mentioned workaround there:
http://matplotlib.1069221.n5.nabble.com/font-setting-in-matplotlib-1-3-1-td42662.html

Basically, it seems to be a problem with font selection with regard to
Bitstream Vera;
a workaround consist in manipulating rcParams and removing this item
from the list of usable fonts.
hth,
  vbr