A bug in graphics.py

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Several hours ago I post my question about unicode support in "axes_labels",here is my question

I am sure this is really a bug of sage,I don't know how to report this bug as the spreadsheets.google.com is block by Chinese government.

As we know that Matplotlib supports unicode with some setting in "matplotlibrc",and I make it work with Chinese characters now.But when I want to set the axes labels to some Chinese characters with "axes_labels" attribute ,I got exception:"UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u6211' in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)"

After I changed some code in sage/local/lib/python/site.py,I set the default encoding to "utf-8",that exception never raise again.But the problem does not be solved as the Chinese characters shown in the axes labels all become boxs like [].

Why I can set the axes labels in Chinese with matplotlib but can not in sage? After I check the source code in

SAGE/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sage/plot/graphics.py

In line 634 of the method "def axes_labels(self, l=None)",I found the line is

self.__axes_labels = (str(l[0]), str(l[1]))

It is obviously that the problem is caused by the str(),after change this line to

self.__axes_labels = (l[0], l[1])

and remove the SAGE/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sage/plot/graphics.pyc,restart sage , I finally got this problem solved.Now Sage gets no problem to work with Chinese,or in other word,gets no problem to work with unicode(utf-8).

There is some work to do with matplotlibrc,it is in sage/local/lib/python/site-packages/matplotlib/mpl-data

First,we need to download one free unicode font,more information can refer to WikiPedia,and I use Bitstream Cyberbit for a test.I think there are more better unicode fonts.Bitstream Cyberbit can work well with Chinese,Japanese,Korean in my test.

After unzip the downloaded file,get the Cyberbit.ttf and put it into sage/local/lib/python/site-packages/matplotlib/mpl-data/fonts/ttf.And then open the matplotlibrc,remove the "#" which at the begin of

font.family : sans-serif

font.style : normal

font.variant : normal

font.weight : medium

font.stretch : normal

It seems that only sans-serif and serif can work well with unicode.

And then ,remove the "#" at the begin of "font.sans-serif " in line 129,add "Bitstream Cyberbit" after ":",it must put on the first,like:

font.sans-serif : Bitstream Cyberbit,Microsoft YaHei,Bitstream Vera Sans, Lucida Grande

It also needs to remove the "#" in the begin of axes.unicode_minus,and set the boolean value to "False",for example:

axes.unicode_minus : False

Save this file and restart Sage,know we can test it with:

plot(x,axes_labels=['z',u'???????'])

It seems that this website does not support unicode.Don't forget the "u" .

The Bitstream Cyberbit,though work well with unicode,I think it is not so beautiful.Maybe there is better one.

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