Merge pull request #2368 from mdboom/test/set-locale

Set locale for tests
matplotlib · Sep 3, 2013 · 8d468f9 · 8d468f9
2 parents f8263c2 + 7578ac4
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diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/tests/__init__.py b/lib/matplotlib/tests/__init__.py
@@ -8,6 +8,11 @@
 
 
 def setup():
+    # The baseline images are created in this locale, so we should use
+    # it during all of the tests.
+    import locale
+    locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'en_US.UTF-8')
+
     use('Agg', warn=False) # use Agg backend for these tests
 
     # These settings *must* be hardcoded for running the comparison