Strange negative y axis values

[valankar]

Ever since I recently upgraded Plotly, I am getting some strange y axis value labels for negative numbers:

Has anyone seen something like this before? These are from graphs generated with to_html(). I cannot quite pinpoint the cause. Thanks.

[AIMPED]

Hi @valankar, yes we had similar topics:

Gibberish / malformed negative y-axis values in plotly charts in python

Im trying to plot a bar plot in plotly that is representing net-gains (will have positive and negative bar values). But somewhat the negative values in the y-axis are being represented in gibberish. I tried several things, including using update_layout function, but nothing seems to work. Im using the make_subplots function because i want to plot multiple viz on one figure. Im using databricks for this code. Attaching my code and viz output: net_gains = pd.DataFrame() net_gains["general_net_g…

[gerard]

Same issue here. Values in the dataframe were float type. All values are negative, but on the y axis tick marks they show up with a strange a symbol with an accent.

[AIMPED]

Hi @gerard, which plotly version are you using?

[valankar]

Seems it’s a known UTF issue. See this bug:

Gibberish / malformed / strange negative y-axis values · Issue #4118 · plotly/plotly.py (github.com)

[Bilal5002]

Possible solution
Use charset=“UTF-8”
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//for me this one worked

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if above one won’t work than update the plolty version