[Matplotlib-devel] Help for testing unicode support on the MacOS backend

[Antony Lee]

wxPython/Python2 works.  If someone has a working installation of
Phoenix/Python3 that'll save me some headaches...
Antony

2016-01-05 12:49 GMT-08:00 Chris Barker <chris.barker at noaa.gov>:

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> On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 6:42 AM, Jens Nielsen <jenshnielsen at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> Great, Sounds like that is every backend then
>>
>
> Anyone try wxPython? It should be fine, but worth a check.
>
> -CHB
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>
>
>>
>> Jens
>>
>> On Tue, 5 Jan 2016 at 14:26 Antony Lee <antony.lee at berkeley.edu> wrote:
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>>> Works with PySide Py2/Py3 (on Linux).
>>>
>>> 2016-01-05 6:11 GMT-08:00 Jens Nielsen <jenshnielsen at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>>> We should be careful about the PySide QT4 backend and unicode. See
>>>> https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/5690
>>>>
>>>> best
>>>> Jens
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, 5 Jan 2016 at 14:06 Michael Droettboom <
>>>> mdroettboom at continuum.io> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> The Mac OSX backend seems to work just fine.
>>>>>
>>>>> That docstring comment goes back to 2008, and the OSS GUI frameworks
>>>>> and Python 3 etc. have made great strides with Unicode support since then.
>>>>> We should probably just remove it along with your proposed change.
>>>>>
>>>>> Mike
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 6:48 PM, Antony Lee <antony.lee at berkeley.edu>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> As part of my rewrite of the Formatter classes (#5787), I am planning
>>>>>> to switch to always use `fix_minus` in the statusbar text (i.e., use a
>>>>>> typographically correct unicode "MINUS SIGN" rather than a dash for
>>>>>> negative numbers).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The original docstring on the topic was
>>>>>>
>>>>>>     Some classes may want to replace a hyphen for minus with the
>>>>>>     proper unicode symbol (U+2212) for typographical correctness.
>>>>>>     The default is to not replace it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>     Note, if you use this method, e.g., in :meth:`format_data` or
>>>>>>     call, you probably don't want to use it for
>>>>>>     :meth:`format_data_short` since the toolbar uses this for
>>>>>>     interactive coord reporting and I doubt we can expect GUIs
>>>>>>     across platforms will handle the unicode correctly.  So for
>>>>>>     now the classes that override :meth:`fix_minus` should have an
>>>>>>     explicit :meth:`format_data_short` method
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have tried the Tk, Qt4, Qt5 (Python2/3), Gtk (Python2) and Gtk3
>>>>>> (Python3) backends on Linux, as well as Tk and Qt4 (Python2) on Windows and
>>>>>> they all handle unicode fine.  Can someone try the MacOS backend for me?
>>>>>> You basically need to patch ScalarFormatter.format_data_short (in
>>>>>> ticker.py) to wrap the returned values in `self.fix_minus`
>>>>>>
>>>>>>     def format_data_short(self, value):
>>>>>>         """return a short formatted string representation of a
>>>>>> number"""
>>>>>>         if self._useLocale:
>>>>>>             return self.fix_minus(locale.format_string('%-12g',
>>>>>> (value,)))
>>>>>>         else:
>>>>>>             return self.fix_minus('%-12g' % value)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> plot e.g. `plot([-1, 1])`, and check that the statusbar displays
>>>>>> negative x values properly (with a minus sign that's actually much more
>>>>>> readable IMO).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Antony
>>>>>>
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