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I installed the necessary stuff in my LaTeX installation from here:

    http://www.unruh.de/DniQ/latex/unicode/

and it's now working even when usetex is on.

It would be great to figure out why it's broken for you.

Do you get any error output from LaTeX?

Cheers,
Mike

Michael Droettboom wrote:
> I should clarify, I have this working with the TkAgg backend and 
> "text.usetex : False".  If "text.usetex : True", I can't confirm or deny 
> whether that works since I don't have a proper LaTeX ucs.sty setup here 
> to test with.
> 
> As an aside, if you're looking to Gtk as a way around this, the Gtk 
> backend uses the same rendering pipeline for text when text.usetex is 
> True, so it likely will produce the same result.
> 
> Cheers,
> Mie
> 
> Michael Droettboom wrote:
>> Xavier Gnata wrote:
>>> With a = u"é" I get no error but also nothing as a title. No strange 
>>> characters. Nothing.
>>
>> This is working for me with the latest svn version, as well as 0.90.1, 
>> on Linux with Python 2.5 and Tcl/Tk 8.4.
>>
>> There are other things that could be going wrong.  The encoding of 
>> your terminal may not match your default encoding in your Python 
>> interpreter.  If you're using Linux, can you please send the output of:
>>
>>  > locale
>>  > python -c "import locale; print locale.getpreferredencoding()"
>>
>> If all is working correctly, you should get the following in your 
>> python interpreter:
>>
>>  >>> a = u"é"
>>  >>> ord(a)
>> 233
>>
>> If you're using an editor (i.e. not using pylab interactively), you'll 
>> need to make sure that it is outputting in the correct encoding, and 
>> respecting the
>>
>> # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
>>
>> line.  Recent versions of emacs do this, but I can't really speak for 
>> others.
>>
>> I have attached a test script that works for me.  It even includes 
>> some Greek characters as Unicode which work if you select a Unicode 
>> font with those characters.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Mike
> 

I should clarify, I have this working with the TkAgg backend and 
"text.usetex : False".  If "text.usetex : True", I can't confirm or deny 
whether that works since I don't have a proper LaTeX ucs.sty setup here 
to test with.

As an aside, if you're looking to Gtk as a way around this, the Gtk 
backend uses the same rendering pipeline for text when text.usetex is 
True, so it likely will produce the same result.

Cheers,
Mie

Michael Droettboom wrote:
> Xavier Gnata wrote:
>> With a = u"é" I get no error but also nothing as a title. No strange 
>> characters. Nothing.
> 
> This is working for me with the latest svn version, as well as 0.90.1, 
> on Linux with Python 2.5 and Tcl/Tk 8.4.
> 
> There are other things that could be going wrong.  The encoding of your 
> terminal may not match your default encoding in your Python interpreter. 
>  If you're using Linux, can you please send the output of:
> 
>  > locale
>  > python -c "import locale; print locale.getpreferredencoding()"
> 
> If all is working correctly, you should get the following in your python 
> interpreter:
> 
>  >>> a = u"é"
>  >>> ord(a)
> 233
> 
> If you're using an editor (i.e. not using pylab interactively), you'll 
> need to make sure that it is outputting in the correct encoding, and 
> respecting the
> 
> # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
> 
> line.  Recent versions of emacs do this, but I can't really speak for 
> others.
> 
> I have attached a test script that works for me.  It even includes some 
> Greek characters as Unicode which work if you select a Unicode font with 
> those characters.
> 
> Cheers,
> Mike

Xavier Gnata wrote:
> With a = u"é" I get no error but also nothing as a title. No strange 
> characters. Nothing.

This is working for me with the latest svn version, as well as 0.90.1, 
on Linux with Python 2.5 and Tcl/Tk 8.4.

There are other things that could be going wrong.  The encoding of your 
terminal may not match your default encoding in your Python interpreter. 
  If you're using Linux, can you please send the output of:

 > locale
 > python -c "import locale; print locale.getpreferredencoding()"

If all is working correctly, you should get the following in your python 
interpreter:

 >>> a = u"é"
 >>> ord(a)
233

If you're using an editor (i.e. not using pylab interactively), you'll 
need to make sure that it is outputting in the correct encoding, and 
respecting the

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

line.  Recent versions of emacs do this, but I can't really speak for 
others.

I have attached a test script that works for me.  It even includes some 
Greek characters as Unicode which work if you select a Unicode font with 
those characters.

Cheers,
Mike