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Hi, Dear!

Please, help me!
I can't use russian fonts on the matplotlib in pithonista 3.*
Why?

Best regards,

MK

Hi, welcome!

Someone else had a similar problem with Greek letters: https://forum.omz-software.com/topic/2594/matplotlib-unicode-greek-letters. Maybe the solutions there work for Russian text too.

Only rectangles instead of text :(

@aerokuzbass, this is how I managed to output Cyrillic characters in Matplotlib:

import sys
import matplotlib.font_manager as fm

if sys.platform.lower() == 'ios':
    fp = fm.FontProperties(fname = "/System/Library/Fonts/CoreAddition/Arial.ttf")
elif sys.platform.lower() == 'darwin':  # for macOS
    fp = fm.FontProperties(fname = '/Library/Fonts/Verdana.ttf')
else:
    raise ValueError('Platform not supported:', sys.platform)

Then you do something like matplotlib.pyplot.title("Привет, мир!", fontproperties=fp). So, basically, you only need to choose a font to use to display the characters.

Thank You, Bro!