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Dear Gökhan,

thanks a lot for your reply and help! I could solve some of my problems, 
others remain elusive.

On 16/03/10 07:59, Gökhan Sever wrote:
> Probably you need a unicode font-set that contain all the characters for
> those alphabets. You can look at this example to see a simple unicode
> demonstration example.

Yes, I have done that, for example:

ylab = plt.ylabel(u'输入 2')

> Make sure you are using the right font in your matplotlib.

Well, here I get stuck. I checked the fontList.cache, and all the 
relevant CJK fonts are listed in there.
I then added some CJK font names to my /etc/matplotlibrc: (I am using 
Ubuntu 9.10)

#font.sans-serif     : SimHei, Adobe Song Std, Bitstream Vera Sans, ...
#font.cursive        : Apple Chancery, ...
#font.fantasy        : Comic Sans MS, ...
#font.monospace      : Adobe Fangsong Std, Bitstream Vera Sans Mono, ...

In addition, I also defined

rcParams['font.sans-serif'] = ['SimHei']

in my Python code (attached).

All to no avail. I am at a loss. I would greatly appreciate some help here!


> You have to adjust your label to get it seen. You may try with:
>
> xlab = plt.xlabel("my x-axes label")
> xlab.set_position((0.2, 0.1))

This did not yield any results. With the above code, 
xlab.set_position((0.2, 0.1)), I change the position of the xlabel.
But the problem is that my graph is cut before the xlabel has a chance 
to appear (see dea.png). Basically the graph ends right after the 
x-axis. What I thus need is more whitespace under my x-axis. But how?


> Two ways I can think of are: annotate and text functions of pyplot api.
> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/api/pyplot_api.html

This worked fine! What I did was to define

text( 1, 4.2, u'A')

etc.

Thanks for your ideas and insights!

David