Accented characters in Matplotlib

Is there a way to get Matplotlib to render accented chars (é,ã,â,etc)? For instance, I'm trying to use accented characters on `set_yticklabels()` and Matplotlib renders squares instead, and when I use `unicode()` it renders the wrong characters. Is there a way to make this work? It turns out you can use u"éã", but first you have to set the file encoding: ``` # Using the magic encoding # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- ``` After that Matplotlib correctly renders ``` u"é" ``` I also learned that you can use ``` import matplotlib.font_manager as fm fp1=fm.FontProperties(fname="/path/to/somefont.ttf") ax.title("é",fontproperties=fp1) ``` in case you need to render a characters that Matplotlib does not have.