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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"support ttc fonts","articleBody":"I am trying to use Chinese text in my plot. There are some pre-installed font on the system which support Chinese (using `fc-list :lang=zh`), for example \"WenQuanYi Zen Hei\". But I find that these fonts can not be found by matplotlib. I checked some of the code of font_manager. I find that font_manger seems intentionally avoid finding font files in ttc extensions.  \r\n\r\nIn order to use these font, I have to explicitly give the path of the font, like the following example code:\r\n```\r\nimport matplotlib.pyplot as plt\r\nimport matplotlib.font_manager as mfm\r\nch_font = mfm.FontProperties(fname=\"/usr/share/fonts/wqy-zenhei/wqy-zenhei.ttc\")\r\nplt.annotate(xy=(0.5, 0.5), s=u'测试', xycoords='axes fraction', fontproperties=ch_font)\r\nplt.show()\r\n```\r\n\r\n\r\nWhat is the reason behind this ?\r\n\r\n**Matplotlib version**\r\n  * Operating System: CentOS 7.2\r\n  * Matplotlib Version:  2.0.1 \r\n  * Python Version: 3.6\r\n\r\n\r\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/jdhao","@type":"Person","name":"jdhao"},"datePublished":"2017-05-12T09:35:46.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":1},"url":"https://github.com/8612/matplotlib/issues/8612"}