{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/mwaskom/seaborn/issues/829","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/mwaskom/seaborn/issues/829/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/mwaskom/seaborn/issues/829/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/mwaskom/seaborn/issues/829/events","html_url":"https://github.com/mwaskom/seaborn/issues/829","id":127878139,"number":829,"title":"how can i show chinese in plot","user":{"login":"wyj2046","id":1501757,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1501757?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/wyj2046","html_url":"https://github.com/wyj2046","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/wyj2046/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/wyj2046/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/wyj2046/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/wyj2046/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/wyj2046/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/wyj2046/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/wyj2046/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/wyj2046/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/wyj2046/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":1,"created_at":"2016-01-21T09:14:42Z","updated_at":"2016-01-21T09:51:52Z","closed_at":null,"body":"hi, seaborn developers.\r\n\r\ni'm using seaborn for data visualization, it's awesome.\r\n\r\nbut i'm in trouble when i want show chinese word in plot\r\n\r\npython will report this issue: UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe5 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)\r\n\r\nafter google, i add this line, it will pass, but the word now become squae like this. \r\nimport sys\r\nreload(sys)\r\nsys.setdefaultencoding('utf8')\r\n\r\n![sex_day](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/1501757/12476139/5f03dbe4-c062-11e5-9c4b-f5354f48a5a7.png)\r\n\r\n\r\nmy environment is mac os10.10.3, python2.7.10, seaborn0.6.0\r\n\r\nany suggestion will thanks"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/mwaskom/seaborn/issues/comments/173519630","html_url":"https://github.com/mwaskom/seaborn/issues/829#issuecomment-173519630","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/mwaskom/seaborn/issues/829","id":173519630,"user":{"login":"Phlya","id":2895034,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2895034?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/Phlya","html_url":"https://github.com/Phlya","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Phlya/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Phlya/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Phlya/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Phlya/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Phlya/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Phlya/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Phlya/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Phlya/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Phlya/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2016-01-21T09:51:52Z","updated_at":"2016-01-21T09:51:52Z","body":"Try puttin u in fron of your Chinese strings: `u'blabla'` instead of `'blabla'`"}}