font_manager.py UnicodeDecodeError when starting ipython --pylab #2307
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I'm experiencing a UnicodeDecodeError when starting ipython --pylab.
System: Debian Sid
$apt-cache policy python-matplotlib
python-matplotlib:
Installed: 1.3.0-1
This seems to be caused by on of the font name containing non-ascii characters. The font causing the issues seems to be " Systematic TT BRK" from the ttf-aenigma package in debian sid. Error message below:
/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/matplotlib/font_manager.py in ttfFontProperty(font)
396 sfnt2 = ''
397 if sfnt4:
--> 398 sfnt4 = sfnt4.decode('ascii').lower()
399 else:
400 sfnt4 = ''
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc6 in position 0: ordinal
not in range(128)