[Insight-developers] Image writing with unicode filename impossible with MSVC

[Bill Lorensen]

Luis,

Looks like utf8cpp does not need cmake-fying since it is just include files.

Bill


On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Luis Ibanez <luis.ibanez at kitware.com> wrote:
> Brad,
>
>              Thanks for the feedback.
>
> Tom,
>
> It looks like adopting utf-cpp is our best next option.
>
>
> Have you verified that this library provides all the
> functionalities that we need ?
>
> If so, we could proceed to CMake-ify it  and then to add it
> to the Utilities directory.  It should be very straight forward
> since it is only composed of three or four header files...
>
> Then we could proceed to implement a class:
>
>               itkUnicodeString
>
> to package the functionality of the library.
>
>
>
> Please let us know what you find.
>
>
>      Thanks
>
>
>           Luis
>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Brad King <brad.king at kitware.com> wrote:
>> Luis Ibanez wrote:
>>> Your suggestion of moving vtkUnicodeString to kwsys
>>> makes a lot of sense.
>>>
>>> We are checking with the maintainers of kwsys, to see
>>> if there are any drawbacks...
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> The second option:  adopting the  utf-cpp  library, also
>>> looks good. the license is essentially the MIT license:
>>> http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
>>>
>>> and the size of the library is just 132 Kb.
>>>
>>>
>>> Let's see first what we hear from kwsys gurus.
>>
>> As the primary maintainer of KWSys I prefer to put as little
>> in the library as possible.  I think using a specialized third
>> party Unicode library is better, especially because its authors
>> ought to know more about it than I do.
>>
>> -Brad
>>
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