[vtk-developers] unicode stuff in VTK

Mathieu Malaterre mathieu.malaterre at gmail.com
Mon Mar 9 11:42:08 EDT 2009


On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Sebastien BARRE
<sebastien.barre at kitware.com> wrote:
> 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.

Oh ! I thought that was indeed for text rendering :(


-- 
Mathieu



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