[vtkusers] Unicode or extended ascii characters in VTK

[Sean McBride]

On 4/11/07 4:14 PM, Arne Hansen said:

>Hello. I am using the vtkTextMapper to write some text on the screen next to
>my animation.
>But i need to write a greek sigma.
>My question is, how can i do this?

I'm afraid you are out of luck.  :(

You may be interested in this bug: <http://www.vtk.org/Bug/bug.php?
op=show&bugid=4501>.  Basically, VTK contains tonnes of code that
assumes one-byte per character, and also VTK uses many crusty old C
functions like strlen(), strcpy(), etc.  It would be a lot of work to
fix, which is probably why it has not been done.

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