[vtk-developers] unicode stuff in VTK

Wylie, Brian bnwylie at sandia.gov
Mon Mar 9 14:05:26 EDT 2009


The rendering of Unicode text is also 'in the pipeline' (Jason Shepherd is doing that work). Certainly in the next few months all of the Unicode support should be on the trunk... 


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-----Original Message-----
From: vtk-developers-bounces at vtk.org [mailto:vtk-developers-bounces at vtk.org] On Behalf Of Mathieu Malaterre
Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 9:42 AM
To: Sebastien BARRE
Cc: VTK-developers
Subject: Re: [vtk-developers] unicode stuff in VTK

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 :(


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Mathieu
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