.. _sphx_glr_gallery_text_labels_and_annotations_accented_text.py: ================================= Using accented text in matplotlib ================================= Matplotlib supports accented characters via TeX mathtext or unicode. Using mathtext, the following accents are provided: \hat, \breve, \grave, \bar, \acute, \tilde, \vec, \dot, \ddot. All of them have the same syntax, e.g., to make an overbar you do \bar{o} or to make an o umlaut you do \ddot{o}. The shortcuts are also provided, e.g.,: \"o \'e \`e \~n \.x \^y .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-horizontal * .. image:: /gallery/text_labels_and_annotations/images/sphx_glr_accented_text_001.png :scale: 47 * .. image:: /gallery/text_labels_and_annotations/images/sphx_glr_accented_text_002.png :scale: 47 .. code-block:: python from __future__ import unicode_literals import matplotlib.pyplot as plt # Mathtext demo fig, ax = plt.subplots() ax.plot(range(10)) ax.set_title(r'$\ddot{o}\acute{e}\grave{e}\hat{O}' r'\breve{i}\bar{A}\tilde{n}\vec{q}$', fontsize=20) # Shorthand is also supported and curly braces are optional ax.set_xlabel(r"""$\"o\ddot o \'e\`e\~n\.x\^y$""", fontsize=20) ax.text(4, 0.5, r"$F=m\ddot{x}$") fig.tight_layout() # Unicode demo fig, ax = plt.subplots() ax.set_title("GISCARD CHAHUTÉ À L'ASSEMBLÉE") ax.set_xlabel("LE COUP DE DÉ DE DE GAULLE") ax.set_ylabel('André was here!') ax.text(0.2, 0.8, 'Institut für Festkörperphysik', rotation=45) ax.text(0.4, 0.2, 'AVA (check kerning)') plt.show() **Total running time of the script:** ( 0 minutes 0.063 seconds) .. only :: html .. container:: sphx-glr-footer .. container:: sphx-glr-download :download:`Download Python source code: accented_text.py ` .. container:: sphx-glr-download :download:`Download Jupyter notebook: accented_text.ipynb ` .. only:: html .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-signature `Gallery generated by Sphinx-Gallery `_