Method fix_minus

lib/matplotlib/ticker.py:301–310

Some classes may want to replace a hyphen for minus with the proper Unicode symbol (U+2212) for typographical correctness. This is a helper method to perform such a replacement when it is enabled via :rc:`axes.unicode_minus`.

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    @staticmethod
    def fix_minus(s):
        """
        Some classes may want to replace a hyphen for minus with the proper
        Unicode symbol (U+2212) for typographical correctness.  This is a
        helper method to perform such a replacement when it is enabled via
        :rc:`axes.unicode_minus`.
        """
        return (s.replace('-', '\N{MINUS SIGN}')
                if mpl.rcParams['axes.unicode_minus']
                else s)

    def _set_locator(self, locator):
        """Subclasses may want to override this to set a locator."""