Subscripts in matplotlib window title (figure num)

Question

Is there a way to write a subscript in the window title ( plt.figure(num='Window title') ). I tried with the standard format for matplotlib mathematical expressions but it doesn't interpret it like it does for other texts:

plt.figure('$Something_{subscript}$')

Answer 1

The window title of a GUI application has nothing to do with matplotlib. You may check in how far the GUI application would support markup. Usually unicode is supported, hence something like plt.figure(u'H\₂SO\₄') would work and result in