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Sébastien Barthélemy wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm using the matplotlib Sphinx extension which automatically includes 
> the source
> code and the figures it produces into the Sphinx document. This is a 
> very handy
> feature whose use goes far beyond documenting matplotlib itself. 
> (thanks for that by the way)
>
> However I have trouble when the python file passed to the plot 
> directive contains
> non-ascii characters. I set up a simple example located there :
> http://github.com/sbarthelemy/SphinxEncoding
>
> running "make html" on it raises:
> Exception occurred:
> File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/sphinx/highlighting.py", line 
> 167, in highlight_block
> source = source.decode()
> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 
> 37: ordinal not in range(128)
> The full traceback has been saved in /tmp/sphinx-err-5kW6ih.log, if 
> you want to report the issue to the author.
>
> So, I've got a few questions:
>
> - is this expected ?
> - is there a workaround ?
> - if not, how hard would it be to fix this problem, maybe I could help 
> a bit (with proper guidance).
>
> Thank you for any help !
>
> PS: I use sphinx 0.6.2-1 and matplotlib 0.99.0-1ubuntu1, both shipped 
> from ubuntu karmic
This is a bug -- but it has a fairly straightforward fix: to use 
Sphinx's "include" directive rather than roll our own as we currently 
do. This has been fixed in SVN r7972. plot-directive now takes an 
"encoding" option, exactly like the Sphinx include directive. It does 
not do automatic encoding detection (meaning it ignores the "# coding: 
latin1" comments), just as the Sphinx include directive does.
I'm not sure if there's a workaround "outside" of matplotlib, other than 
to ensure the source files are encoding in pure ascii (by using unicode 
escapes in literals instead of the real characters). But that's not a 
great workaround.
Mike
-- 
Michael Droettboom
Science Software Branch
Operations and Engineering Division
Space Telescope Science Institute
Operated by AURA for NASA

Hello,
I'm using the matplotlib Sphinx extension which automatically includes the
source
code and the figures it produces into the Sphinx document. This is a very
handy
feature whose use goes far beyond documenting matplotlib itself. (thanks for
that by the way)
However I have trouble when the python file passed to the plot directive
contains
non-ascii characters. I set up a simple example located there :
http://github.com/sbarthelemy/SphinxEncoding
running "make html" on it raises:
 Exception occurred:
 File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/sphinx/highlighting.py", line 167, in
highlight_block
 source = source.decode()
 UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 37:
ordinal not in range(128)
 The full traceback has been saved in /tmp/sphinx-err-5kW6ih.log, if you
want to report the issue to the author.
So, I've got a few questions:
- is this expected ?
- is there a workaround ?
- if not, how hard would it be to fix this problem, maybe I could help a bit
(with proper guidance).
Thank you for any help !
PS: I use sphinx 0.6.2-1 and matplotlib 0.99.0-1ubuntu1, both shipped from
ubuntu karmic

In gnuplot, I can do the following:
set format x "%.0s %cHz"
...and this will set the x-axis labels (on a semilogx style plot) to
be "10 Hz", "100 Hz", "1 kHz", "10 kHz", etc.
Is there an easy way to do this in matplotlib? I spent a while in the
matplotlib.ticker docs, but couldn't find anything.
Cheers,
Jason