Final fix to get STIX fonts working on Unicode-narrow platforms.

mdboom · mdboom · commit 455403221725 · 2008-06-17T14:42:31.000Z
svn path=/trunk/matplotlib/; revision=5571
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/mathtext.py b/lib/matplotlib/mathtext.py
@@ -842,10 +842,11 @@ def _get_glyph(self, fontname, font_class, sym, fontsize):
             new_fontname = fontname
 
             if fontname == 'it':
-                unistring = unichr(uniindex)
-                if (not unicodedata.category(unistring)[0] == "L"
-                    or unicodedata.name(unistring).startswith("GREEK CAPITAL")):
-                    new_fontname = 'rm'
+                if uniindex < 0x10000:
+                    unistring = unichr(uniindex)
+                    if (not unicodedata.category(unistring)[0] == "L"
+                        or unicodedata.name(unistring).startswith("GREEK CAPITAL")):
+                        new_fontname = 'rm'
 
             slanted = (new_fontname == 'it') or sym in self._slanted_symbols
             found_symbol = False
