fix EngFormatter docstring: escape Unicode character codes

afvincent · afvincent · commit 22ae8c285480 · 2017-08-24T14:53:05.000-07:00
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/ticker.py b/lib/matplotlib/ticker.py
@@ -1233,8 +1233,8 @@ def __init__(self, unit="", places=None, sep=" "):
             String used between the value and the prefix/unit. Beside the
             default behavior, some other useful use cases may be:
                 * sep="" to append directly the prefix/unit to the value;
-                * sep="\u00a0" to use a no-break space;
-                * sep="\u202f" to use a narrow no-break space.
+                * sep="\\u00a0" to use a no-break space;
+                * sep="\\u202f" to use a narrow no-break space.
         """
         self.unit = unit
         self.places = places
