Savefig to EPS with cyrillic title doesn't work

[PAleksandrov]

Saving a figure with cyrillic title doesn't work. The next message is printed:

savefig('/tmp/тест.eps')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/opt/develop/lib/python3.3/site-packages/ipython-1.1.0-py3.3.egg/IPython/core/interactiveshell.py", line 2828, in run_code
exec(code_obj, self.user_global_ns, self.user_ns)
File "", line 1, in
savefig('/tmp/тест.eps')
File "/opt/develop/lib/python3.3/site-packages/matplotlib-1.4.x-py3.3-linux-x86_64.egg/matplotlib/pyplot.py", line 561, in savefig
return fig.savefig(_args, *_kwargs)
File "/opt/develop/lib/python3.3/site-packages/matplotlib-1.4.x-py3.3-linux-x86_64.egg/matplotlib/figure.py", line 1411, in savefig
self.canvas.print_figure(_args, *_kwargs)
File "/opt/develop/lib/python3.3/site-packages/matplotlib-1.4.x-py3.3-linux-x86_64.egg/matplotlib/backends/backend_qt4agg.py", line 161, in print_figure
FigureCanvasAgg.print_figure(self, _args, *_kwargs)
File "/opt/develop/lib/python3.3/site-packages/matplotlib-1.4.x-py3.3-linux-x86_64.egg/matplotlib/backend_bases.py", line 2220, in print_figure
*_kwargs)
File "/opt/develop/lib/python3.3/site-packages/matplotlib-1.4.x-py3.3-linux-x86_64.egg/matplotlib/backend_bases.py", line 1947, in print_eps
return ps.print_eps(_args, *_kwargs)
File "/opt/develop/lib/python3.3/site-packages/matplotlib-1.4.x-py3.3-linux-x86_64.egg/matplotlib/backends/backend_ps.py", line 979, in print_eps
return self._print_ps(outfile, 'eps', *args, *_kwargs)
File "/opt/develop/lib/python3.3/site-packages/matplotlib-1.4.x-py3.3-linux-x86_64.egg/matplotlib/backends/backend_ps.py", line 1007, in _print_ps
**kwargs)
File "/opt/develop/lib/python3.3/site-packages/matplotlib-1.4.x-py3.3-linux-x86_64.egg/matplotlib/backends/backend_ps.py", line 1199, in _print_figure
print_figure_impl()
File "/opt/develop/lib/python3.3/site-packages/matplotlib-1.4.x-py3.3-linux-x86_64.egg/matplotlib/backends/backend_ps.py", line 1117, in print_figure_impl
if title: print("%%Title: "+title, file=fh)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 14-17: ordinal not in range(128)

If EPS format doesn't allow writing titles in non-ascii encodings, it may be better to leave an empty title.

[mdboom]

It is True that the metadata in Postscript is ascii (and the text itself isn't really Unicode either, but you can get a little farther with various hacks). We could use title.encode('ascii', 'replace') here. Does that successfully create a file for you?

[PAleksandrov]

16.12.2013 18:21, Michael Droettboom пишет:

We could use |title.encode('ascii', 'replace')| here. Does that
successfully create a file for you?

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I think that yes.

[tacaswell]

Closing as there is a work around and this seems to be a limitation of eps.