tex special characters in axis label not properly escaped

[wellsbk1]

When including a tex special character in a plot label, such as in "Reflectance(%)", the % is included verbatim into the generated .tikz file which causes tex to interpret the text after the "%" as a comment.
mathplotlib2TikZ should trap special characters and convert % to %

[NilsWildt]

Encountered the same problem. I had to Escape the "%" manually.

[nschloe]

There are some ways in which you can make the matplotlib2tikz output fail to compile. The easiest is of course to insert illegal LaTeX text into the labels, e.g.,

Isn't this { a nice bracket?

or

Sweet_underscore.

In the same category falls

Label with %-sign

I believe we shouldn't try to fix all LaTeX errors. Eventually, only the user can do that.

Closing, but feel free to reopen of course.

[andreassch]

The pylatexenc library can be used to LaTeX-escape special characters. What about an option to apply pylatexenc.latexencode's unicode_to_latex() function to all label strings?