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Certain unicode in Matplotlib + LaTeX #20262

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@numpde

The following code fails at set_ylabel:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

with plt.style.context({'text.usetex': True}):
    (fig, ax) = plt.subplots()
    ax.set_xlabel("€")
    ax.set_ylabel("Δ")
    plt.show()

It works with $\Delta$ instead of Δ and it works if I unset text.usetex.

The generated tex is this:

\documentclass{article}
\newcommand{\mathdefault}[1]{#1}
\usepackage{type1cm}
\usepackage{type1ec}
\usepackage{type1ec}
\usepackage{type1ec}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\DeclareUnicodeCharacter{2212}{\ensuremath{-}}
\usepackage[papersize=72in, margin=1in]{geometry}

\makeatletter\@ifpackageloaded{textcomp}{}{\usepackage{textcomp}}\makeatother
\pagestyle{empty}
\begin{document}
% The empty hbox ensures that a page is printed even for empty inputs, except
% when using psfrag which gets confused by it.
\fontsize{10.000000}{12.500000}%
\ifdefined\psfrag\else\hbox{}\fi%
{\sffamily Δ}
\end{document}

and it compiles fine with pdflatex if I replace \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} by \usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}. Otherwise the error is the same:

! Package inputenc Error: Unicode character Δ (U+0394)
(inputenc)                not set up for use with LaTeX.

I think this is on the side of unexpected behavior.

Versions: Python 3.8.5 and matplotlib==3.4.1.

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