[Paraview] questions

[Berk Geveci]

Start with vtkDataSetReader. That class points to bunch of other
classes. Just  a word of caution: it is not a straightforward task. I
would estimate that it would take someone a few months of effort to
fully, properly integrate unicode support to VTK and ParaView.

-berk

On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 3:59 PM, John Doe <ufnoise at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd be interested in what is referred to as the legacy file format and
> has the header:
> # vtk DataFile Version 3.1
>
> Since QT has native unicode support, I'd be interested in seeing how
> hard it would be to allow utf-8 scalar names.  I would consider either
> writing vtk files in utf-8 or in escape sequences (e.g. \u03c8).
>
> I'd be happy to provide a patch or a plugin enabling such a capability.
>
> Regards,
>
> Juan
>
> On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Berk Geveci <berk.geveci at kitware.com> wrote:
>> Which file format are we talking about?
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 3:39 PM, John Doe <ufnoise at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Could you please let me know which source file reads the ascii format?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Juan
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 2:26 PM, Berk Geveci <berk.geveci at kitware.com> wrote:
>>>> 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
>>>>
>>>
>>
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