Backport PR #12869: Fix latin-1-ization of Title in eps. (#12870)

meeseeksmachine · timhoffm · commit 4b5c07b51537 · 2018-11-24T14:54:22.000+01:00
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/backends/backend_ps.py b/lib/matplotlib/backends/backend_ps.py
@@ -973,7 +973,7 @@ def _print_figure(
         isEPSF = format == 'eps'
         if isinstance(outfile, (str, getattr(os, "PathLike", ()),)):
             outfile = title = getattr(os, "fspath", lambda obj: obj)(outfile)
-            title = title.encode("latin-1", "replace").decode()
+            title = title.encode("latin-1", "replace").decode("latin-1")
             passed_in_file_object = False
         elif is_writable_file_like(outfile):
             title = None
