[vtkusers] Unicode or extended ascii characters in VTK

[Arne Hansen]

Hmm yes i see the problem...This is quite unfortunate...

Are there any workarounds?

Regards



2007/4/11, Arne Hansen <bsd.diverse at gmail.com>:
>
> Hmm yes i see the problem...This is quite unfortunate...
>
> Are there any workarounds?
>
> Regards
>
>
> 2007/4/11, Sean McBride <sean at rogue-research.com>:
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > --
> > ____________________________________________________________
> > Sean McBride, B. Eng                 sean at rogue-research.com
> > Rogue Research                        www.rogue-research.com
> > Mac Software Developer              Montréal, Québec, Canada
> >
> >
> >
>
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