Partially fix #2343: Forcibly set the locale to en_US.UTF-8 during tests so that the output will match the baseline images

mdboom · mdboom · commit 7578ac47ecab · 2013-09-03T12:34:06.000-04:00
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/tests/__init__.py b/lib/matplotlib/tests/__init__.py
@@ -8,6 +8,11 @@
 
 
 def setup():
+    # The baseline images are created in this locale, so we should use
+    # it during all of the tests.
+    import locale
+    locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'en_US.UTF-8')
+
     use('Agg', warn=False) # use Agg backend for these tests
 
     # These settings *must* be hardcoded for running the comparison
