Bug summary

Minuses are shown as dashes when choosing the log scale, both in the exponent and in front of the actual number.

Code for reproduction

plot([-10, 10], [-10, 10])
yscale('symlog', linthresh=.1)

Actual outcome

Expected outcome

Minuses should be shown as minuses and not dashes.

Operating system

OS/X

Matplotlib Version

3.4.3

Matplotlib Backend

module://matplotlib_inline.backend_inline

Python version

3.8.1

Jupyter version

3.2.1

Other libraries

No response

Installation

conda

Conda channel

No response