Nico Schlömer

> I would then keep this PR open, so that people with a similar problem can find it. Sounds good to me. > The branch name is correct now, but...

Can you cook up an example code without pandas? It's such a heavy dependency...

This is normal. `plt.show()` and `plt.savefig()` change the figure data in subtle ways. If anything, I'd call this an mpl bug.

I've tried reproducing this on two different machines, but had no success. Perhaps there's nonstandard matplotlibrc config on your machine.

Should definitely; I'll look at it later.

This is a matplotlib issue; see https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/7243. If you want this to work, +1 there.

@svretina Not solved, it's a matplotlib issue. See above.

Sure, whatever works.

For my own reference: There's [this question on stackoverflow](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/10886/13262). The reply is not very satisfying though. I just wrote Christian (the author of pgfplots), so let's see if we're getting...

But is UTF-8 the only supported encoding for standalone? Seems weird.