…urn True for either bytestrings or unicode strings. So, in order to allow unicode in the matplotlibrc, we need to use this typechecking rather than the former (which was type(s) is string )

…ts passed along with the file sometime.

…than the = that it currently uses.

…ophes. Removing the apostrophes seemed to work. I'm curious about why this occured for some but not all variables. Anyway, my test complained about these but not the others.