diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index 0ba7d86d..077cc30b 100644
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 name = "Plots"
 uuid = "91a5bcdd-55d7-5caf-9e0b-520d859cae80"
 author = ["Tom Breloff (@tbreloff)"]
-version = "1.0.9"
+version = "1.0.10"
 
 [deps]
 Base64 = "2a0f44e3-6c83-55bd-87e4-b1978d98bd5f"
diff --git a/src/backends/gr.jl b/src/backends/gr.jl
index 86d19165..21c1464a 100644
--- a/src/backends/gr.jl
+++ b/src/backends/gr.jl
@@ -822,6 +822,7 @@ end
 
 function _update_min_padding!(sp::Subplot{GRBackend})
     dpi = sp.plt[:thickness_scaling]
+    ENV["GKS_ENCODING"] = "utf8"
     if !haskey(ENV, "GKSwstype")
         if isijulia()
             ENV["GKSwstype"] = "svg"
@@ -1945,6 +1946,7 @@ gr_set_output(wstype::String) = (_gr_wstype[] = wstype)
 
 for (mime, fmt) in _gr_mimeformats
     @eval function _show(io::IO, ::MIME{Symbol($mime)}, plt::Plot{GRBackend})
+        ENV["GKS_ENCODING"] = "utf8"
         GR.emergencyclosegks()
         filepath = tempname() * "." * $fmt
         env = get(ENV, "GKSwstype", "0")
@@ -1963,6 +1965,7 @@ for (mime, fmt) in _gr_mimeformats
 end
 
 function _display(plt::Plot{GRBackend})
+    ENV["GKS_ENCODING"] = "utf8"
     if plt[:display_type] == :inline
         GR.emergencyclosegks()
         filepath = tempname() * ".pdf"
diff --git a/src/backends/pgfplotsx.jl b/src/backends/pgfplotsx.jl
index 2e889f0e..ed5f0972 100644
--- a/src/backends/pgfplotsx.jl
+++ b/src/backends/pgfplotsx.jl
@@ -240,6 +240,16 @@ function (pgfx_plot::PGFPlotsXPlot)(plt::Plot{PGFPlotsXBackend})
                 PGFPlotsX.Axis
             end
             axis = axisf(axis_opt)
+            if sp[:legendtitle] !== nothing
+                push!(axis, PGFPlotsX.Options("\\addlegendimage{empty legend}" => nothing))
+                push!(
+                    axis,
+                    PGFPlotsX.LegendEntry(
+                        string("\\hspace{-.6cm}{\\textbf{", sp[:legendtitle], "}}"),
+                        false,
+                    ),
+                )
+            end
             for (series_index, series) in enumerate(series_list(sp))
                 # give each series a uuid for fillbetween
                 series_id = uuid4()
diff --git a/src/backends/pyplot.jl b/src/backends/pyplot.jl
index 66a81554..f61f8af6 100644
--- a/src/backends/pyplot.jl
+++ b/src/backends/pyplot.jl
@@ -1113,7 +1113,13 @@ function _before_layout_calcs(plt::Plot{PyPlotBackend})
             end
             pyaxis."label"."set_fontsize"(py_thickness_scale(plt, axis[:guidefontsize]))
             pyaxis."label"."set_family"(axis[:guidefontfamily])
-            pyaxis."label"."set_rotation"(axis[:guidefontrotation])
+
+            if (letter == :y && !RecipesPipeline.is3d(sp))
+                pyaxis."label"."set_rotation"(axis[:guidefontrotation] + 90)
+            else
+                pyaxis."label"."set_rotation"(axis[:guidefontrotation])
+            end
+
             for lab in getproperty(ax, Symbol("get_", letter, "ticklabels"))()
                 lab."set_fontsize"(py_thickness_scale(plt, axis[:tickfontsize]))
                 lab."set_family"(axis[:tickfontfamily])