Extended characters in MATPLOTLIB (newbie)

[Andrew Holme]

"Andrew Holme" <andrew at nospam.com> wrote in message 
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> I'm using MATPLOTLIB on Windows.
>
> How can I get extended characters such as the micro symbol (greek letter 
> mu) to appear in my axis labels?
>
> I've tried:
>
> xlabel('µs', font)
>
> and
>
> xlabel('\xB5s', font)
>
> but it just appears as a box.
>
> TIA
>

Found it:

xlabel(r'$\mu s$', fontsize=20)