[vtk-developers] unicode stuff in VTK

[Sebastien BARRE]

At 3/9/2009 11:22 AM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:

> > 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.

I think VTK 5.4 is feature-frozen already.
In any case, there would be a lot of changes involved to have VTK 
support Unicode everywhere it accepts text (especially with respect 
to the text rendering pipeline), so I don't think that would/should 
go in 5.4...
But it's good news anyway.