[Paraview] ParaView 3.98 NRRD reader does not support ASCII encoding

[Russell M. Taylor II]

The NRRD specification 
(http://teem.sourceforge.net/nrrd/format.html#general.4, paragraph 4) 
states that all readers must support raw and ASCII encoding, but when 
I open a NRRD file with either ascii or ASCII encoding, ParaView 
reports ERROR: In 
C:\DBD\pvs-x64\paraview\src\paraview\VTK\IO\Image\vtkNrrdReader.cxx, 
line 377 vtkPNrrdReader (000000000CF65C70): Unsupported encoding: ascii.

If I lie to it and tell it that it is raw encoding, the file loading 
completes (with garbage values, of course), so it does not seem to be 
a problem with the format of the NRRD header file I am using.

Unfortunately, this is preventing me from switching from legacy VTK 
readers to the NRRD reader as my conversion example in by 
visualization class being taught this spring.  I like the 
detatched-headers feature of NRRD, which keeps folks from having to 
hand-edit their giant data files, but I do need to be able to have 
them support the reading of ASCII files.

Is implementing ASCII support on the future list?  If so, any idea of 
the timeline?

Thanks,
Russ


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