Unicode issue in EPS output when using custom font

[mdboom]

If I do:

import matplotlib
matplotlib.use('Agg')
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

plt.rcParams['font.family'] = 'Georgia'

fig = plt.figure()
ax = fig.add_subplot(1,1,1)
ax.scatter([1,2,3],[1,2,3])
fig.savefig('test.eps')

I get:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "test_helvetica.py", line 10, in <module>
    fig.savefig('test.eps')
  File "/Users/tom/Library/Python/2.7/lib/python/site-packages/matplotlib-1.4.x-py2.7-macosx-10.8-x86_64.egg/matplotlib/figure.py", line 1439, in savefig
    self.canvas.print_figure(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/Users/tom/Library/Python/2.7/lib/python/site-packages/matplotlib-1.4.x-py2.7-macosx-10.8-x86_64.egg/matplotlib/backend_bases.py", line 2228, in print_figure
    **kwargs)
  File "/Users/tom/Library/Python/2.7/lib/python/site-packages/matplotlib-1.4.x-py2.7-macosx-10.8-x86_64.egg/matplotlib/backend_bases.py", line 1953, in print_eps
    return ps.print_eps(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/Users/tom/Library/Python/2.7/lib/python/site-packages/matplotlib-1.4.x-py2.7-macosx-10.8-x86_64.egg/matplotlib/backends/backend_ps.py", line 982, in print_eps
    return self._print_ps(outfile, 'eps', *args, **kwargs)
  File "/Users/tom/Library/Python/2.7/lib/python/site-packages/matplotlib-1.4.x-py2.7-macosx-10.8-x86_64.egg/matplotlib/backends/backend_ps.py", line 1010, in _print_ps
    **kwargs)
  File "/Users/tom/Library/Python/2.7/lib/python/site-packages/matplotlib-1.4.x-py2.7-macosx-10.8-x86_64.egg/matplotlib/backends/backend_ps.py", line 1208, in _print_figure
    print_figure_impl()
  File "/Users/tom/Library/Python/2.7/lib/python/site-packages/matplotlib-1.4.x-py2.7-macosx-10.8-x86_64.egg/matplotlib/backends/backend_ps.py", line 1159, in print_figure_impl
    fh, fonttype, glyph_ids)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xa9 in position 13: invalid start byte

This is using the latest developer version of Matplotlib (a3d2992 at the time of writing). I can save it to PDF and convert to PS with pdf2ps but it would be nice to be able to save to EPS directly.

[mdboom]

I can't reproduce this. Are you using the Georgia that comes with MS Windows 7 or later (as opposed to the one from earlier versions of Windows)? This is probably related to Microsoft removing the Macintosh extensions on the recent versions of their fonts. There are possibly workarounds, but I'll need the font file to reproduce.

[astrofrog]

I'll email you the font.

[mdboom]

Let's see what Travis thinks of this.

[pelson]

👍 for merge, though I've not tested they fix the original problem.