Some of Russian letters are not visible in EPS

[Felix-neko]

I have seen, that some of Russian letters (u'У' and u'Я') were not seen in EPS images, when I saved my plots, while PNG images was OK.

Cannot someone help me?

Here is the example:

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import numpy as np

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import matplotlib
matplotlib.rc('font', **{'sans-serif' : 'Arial', 'family' : 'sans-serif'})

plt.plot([0, 1, 2], [1,2,4], label=u"!!!ЭЭЭЭ and ЯЯЯЯ and УУУ!!!") #label must be u"!!!ЭЭЭЭ and ЯЯЯЯ and УУУ!!!"

plt.legend()
plt.savefig("BadEps.eps")
plt.savefig("GoodPng.png")

plt.show()

[tacaswell]

@mdboom Who is the unicode expert?

@Felix-neko Could this be a font issue where you don't have the correct type of font for the eps installed? Could you re-test this on the 1.4.0 release candidates?

[tacaswell]

#2684 seems to say that eps can only deal with ascii...

[mdboom]

Yeah -- I wouldn't expect the PS backend to handle this. There's no unicode support in Postscript, so anything we could do there would be region-specific hacks. Postscript is basically obsolete for this kind of thing. It's probably doable, but it's tough given our small resources. The PDF and SVG backends work fine, however, and they can be converted with third-party tools to PS. I'm closing as won't fix.