#389: Matplotlib issue causing crash in ProfileTool plugin. "UnicodeDecodeError?:
'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x8e in position 8: ordinal not in
range(128) "
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Reporter: nicolascadieux | Owner: osgeo4w-dev@…
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: major | Component: Package
Version: | Keywords: Matplotlib
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Issue #8953 has been updated by Etienne Tourigny:
"This seems to be a matplotlib issue in your osgeo4w install. Does not
happen in linux. Please try this in the QGIS python console (which works
fine in linux):
from matplotlib.figure import Figure
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<input>", line 1, in <module>
File "C:/OSGEO4~1/apps/qgis/./python\qgis\utils.py", line 453, in
_import
mod = _builtin_import(name, globals, locals, fromlist, level)
File "C:\OSGEO4~1\apps\Python27\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\figure.py",
line 34, in <module>
import matplotlib.colorbar as cbar
File "C:/OSGEO4~1/apps/qgis/./python\qgis\utils.py", line 453, in
_import
mod = _builtin_import(name, globals, locals, fromlist, level)
File "C:\OSGEO4~1\apps\Python27\lib\site-
packages\matplotlib\colorbar.py", line 29, in <module>
import matplotlib.collections as collections
File "C:/OSGEO4~1/apps/qgis/./python\qgis\utils.py", line 453, in
_import
mod = _builtin_import(name, globals, locals, fromlist, level)
File "C:\OSGEO4~1\apps\Python27\lib\site-
packages\matplotlib\collections.py", line 23, in <module>
import matplotlib.backend_bases as backend_bases
File "C:/OSGEO4~1/apps/qgis/./python\qgis\utils.py", line 453, in
_import
mod = _builtin_import(name, globals, locals, fromlist, level)
File "C:\OSGEO4~1\apps\Python27\lib\site-
packages\matplotlib\backend_bases.py", line 50, in <module>
import matplotlib.textpath as textpath
File "C:/OSGEO4~1/apps/qgis/./python\qgis\utils.py", line 453, in
_import
mod = _builtin_import(name, globals, locals, fromlist, level)
File "C:\OSGEO4~1\apps\Python27\lib\site-
packages\matplotlib\textpath.py", line 11, in <module>
import matplotlib.font_manager as font_manager
File "C:/OSGEO4~1/apps/qgis/./python\qgis\utils.py", line 453, in
_import
mod = _builtin_import(name, globals, locals, fromlist, level)
File "C:\OSGEO4~1\apps\Python27\lib\site-
packages\matplotlib\font_manager.py", line 1356, in <module>
_rebuild()
File "C:\OSGEO4~1\apps\Python27\lib\site-
packages\matplotlib\font_manager.py", line 1341, in _rebuild
fontManager = FontManager()
File "C:\OSGEO4~1\apps\Python27\lib\site-
packages\matplotlib\font_manager.py", line 1004, in __init__
self.ttflist = createFontList(self.ttffiles)
File "C:\OSGEO4~1\apps\Python27\lib\site-
packages\matplotlib\font_manager.py", line 584, in createFontList
prop = ttfFontProperty(font)
File "C:\OSGEO4~1\apps\Python27\lib\site-
packages\matplotlib\font_manager.py", line 398, in ttfFontProperty
sfnt4 = sfnt4.decode('ascii').lower()
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x8e in position 8:
ordinal not in range(128)
see http://hub.qgis.org/issues/8953
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Ticket URL: <http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/ticket/389>
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