[Paraview] questions

[Berk Geveci]

On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 11:18 AM, John Doe <ufnoise at gmail.com> wrote:
> Comments inline:
>
> On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 7:25 AM, Berk Geveci <berk.geveci at kitware.com> wrote:
>>> I am starting to evaluate paraview for a project and I am curious
>>> about a few things:
>>>
>>> File formats:
>>>
>>> Does the vtk ascii format support unicode data set names?  If it
>>> doesn't, is there a format that does?
>>
>> I am afraid that you will find VTK (the underlying computing layer of
>> ParaView) and ParaView lacking quite a bit in supporting anything but
>> ASCII. Can you elaborate a bit more what you need? Do you need the
>> whole user interface to support unicode or just the dataset names? And
>> what do you mean by "dataset name"? Names of the field variables?
>
> My program uses utf-8.  I want to allow users to use symbols for their
> data, such as psi (u03c8) for potential, and script E (u2130) for
> electric field.

I am afraid this is not supported yet.

-berk