[foob]

It's not unicode, but there's also sixelplot [1] which allows matplotlib plotting in a terminal using sixel. The underlying pysixel library [2] unfortunately doesn't support Python 3.7+ however.

[1] https://github.com/kktk-KO/sixelplot

[2] https://github.com/saitoha/PySixel

[iso-8859-1]

There is a PR that fixes it for 3.7, it needs review: https://github.com/saitoha/PySixel/pull/5