Re: [matplotlib-devel] matplotlib date formatting

On 06/13/2010 08:23 AM, Гузий Саша wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I recently updated matplotlib using macports, and it broke my plotting
> functions which plot date-value plots.
>
> The reason was that my locale.getpreferredencoding() returned empty
> string in
> cbook.py.
>
> changing the code to the following solved my problem
>
> # On some systems, locale.getpreferredencoding returns None,
> # which can break unicode; and the sage project reports that
> # some systems have incorrect locale specifications, e.g.,
> # an encoding instead of a valid locale name.
>
> try:
>      preferredencoding = locale.getpreferredencoding()
>      if preferredencoding.strip() == '':
>          raise ValueError
> except ValueError:
>      preferredencoding = None
> except ImportError:
>      preferredencoding = None
>
> sorry for disturbing you
> --
> Huziy Oleksandr
>

Thank you for the report.  I committed a modified version of your change 
in svn 8433.

Eric