[Python-modules-team] Bug#691916: Where is the bug?

[Johan Grönqvist]

This has also been reported as a bug in the font-package, at bug 694493.

I tried to make a search for Type1, and found a definition from adobe, 
which referred to a definition of "number" for postscript, and a 
postscript reference (from adobe) told me that the character used should 
be a ".", so from my brief look, this appears to me to be a bug in the 
font-package.

Of course, one might argue that the matplotlib library should handle the 
error more gracefully, but the actual error might be in the afm file.

/ johan