https://wokron.github.io/en/tags/matplotlib/ Recent content in Matplotlib on Wokron's Blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en ©2022-2026 Yitang Yang. All rights reserved. Sun, 05 May 2024 14:08:59 +0800 https://wokron.github.io/en/posts/talk-about-font/ Sun, 05 May 2024 14:08:59 +0800 https://wokron.github.io/en/posts/talk-about-font/ A while back, I found that Matplotlib couldn’t display Chinese characters properly. While solving the problem, I learned a fair bit about how font rendering works. Here are my notes. 1. Encoding and Fonts We know that to store characters in a computer, we assign a numeric code to each character. This artificial convention is called character encoding. Common encodings include ASCII, GBK, Unicode, and so on. Character encoding is the data representation of characters.