[vtkusers] Problem reading a vtk-file with vtkStructuredGridReader

[Thomas Obenaus]

Hi everybody,

I'm trying to read vtk-files which contain data of the type 
vtkStructuredGrid. Using the vtkStructuredGridReader for this task is 
easy and returns the content of the vtk-file in most cases. But in case 
the filename or the path to the file contains a non-english character 
like (ö,ä,ü,...) the reader returns the following error-message 
"CANNOT_OPEN_FILE_ERROR (20002) reading file: D:\TEMP\Neuer 
Ordner\bfeld.vtk". Considering the example below I used to create the 
error, I think its a problem of missing unicode support because the "ö" 
in the filename böfeld.vtk is filtered out so that the reader can't find 
the file bfeld.vtk

vtkStructuredGridReader reader = new vtkStructuredGridReader( );
reader.SetFileName( "D:\\TEMP\\Neuer Ordner\\böfeld.vtk" );
reader.Update( );

My question is how can I workaround this problem? Does VTK 5.2 support 
unicode?
I'm using VTK 5.2 with Java (JDK 1.6.0_11) under Windows XP SP3 and 
Windows Vista SP1.

Thanks in advance,
Thomas Obenaus.