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Description
Run the following code under python2, then try to save the figure but clicking on the floppy button :
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
fig = plt.figure()
fig.canvas.set_window_title(u"unïcode")
plt.show()
The window for choosing a filename doesn't open and this traceback is printed:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/backends/backend_qt5.py", line 707, in save_figure
start = os.path.join(startpath, self.canvas.get_default_filename())
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/backend_bases.py", line 2254, in get_default_filename
default_filename = self.get_window_title() or 'image'
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/backend_bases.py", line 2239, in get_window_title
return self.manager.get_window_title()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/backends/backend_qt5.py", line 560, in get_window_title
return str(self.window.windowTitle())
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xef' in position 2: ordinal not in range(128)
It works fine on python3.