[vtk-developers] unicode stuff in VTK

Mathieu Malaterre mathieu.malaterre at gmail.com
Mon Mar 9 11:22:06 EDT 2009


On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Timothy M. Shead <tshead at sandia.gov> wrote:
> Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
>>
>> Hi there,
>>
>>  This is great to see some unicode handling in VTK. However looking
>> at the comited code:
>>
>>
>> http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/Utilities/utf8/source/utf8/core.h?r1=1.1&r2=1.1.2.1
>>
>> I see this:
>>
>>  typedef unsigned int    uint32_t;
>>
>> Could someone add some tests on 64bits machine :)
>>
>> Thanks,
>
> This is fixed in CVS, thanks for the heads-up.

Please backport to CVS HEAD, thanks.

> For those interested, the proposed VTK Unicode support consists of
> "vtkUnicodeString" and "vtkUnicodeStringArray" classes, which were recently
> committed to the ParaView-Annotation branch (i.e. they're not part of 5.4).
>
> The code in question is an internal implementation detail that we are using
> for UTF-8 and UTF-16 support.

Sweet ! That's something I have been waiting to see in VTK. Hopefully
this will be part of VTK 5.4.

Thanks,
-- 
Mathieu



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