[vtk-developers] Fix for VTK 5 Unicode Support

[de Boer Ingo]

Hi,

I have made some changes to the current VTK 5 CVS for the Unicode support.
The changes were made under Win32, MS VS 2003 and should be checked for
Borland and MingW.
I have added a new file, called vtkUnicode.h. This file is based on the
ATL (some copy&paste which is allowed ??.. I don't know for the ATL).

There are some warnings in ProcessFwd9x.c and ProcessWin32.c.
Now, I guess these are for Win9x only and Unicode on these platforms is
not that easy. Maybe one of the developers should take another look at this.

Is Win9x support really needed today ? There is no official support from
M$ anymore. Maybe there should be a poll on that ?

Also... When will there be Unicode support in CMake ? It is always much
work to make the Unicode versions.

Another thing... Which platform does not support Unicode ? So, why isn't
VTK completely in Unicode ? It would make life a bit easier I'd say.

Please find the files at

http://www.vtk.org/Bug/bug.php?op=show&bugid=2519


greets
  Ingo

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Dr.-Ing. Ingo H. de Boer

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