[vtkusers] Problem reading a vtk-file with vtkStructuredGridReader

[Thomas Obenaus]

Hello,

I thought your suggestion has solved the problem. Unfortunately that was
wrong since 8.3 filenames are only supported by the FAT-filesystem. For NTFS
there is an option to deactivate this feature. So its not possible to
guarantee a full windows-support with this approach. Additionally that
solution won't work on unix-platforms. Since my application should work
under unix and windows I have only the possibility to warn the users to not
use the German "umlaute (ö,ü,ä)" within the whole path to the vtk-file they
want to display. And that is a unsatisfying solution form me.

Has anyone another idea to solve this problem? Is it planned to add full
unicode-support to vtk? 

Thomas.


mirko heuegger wrote:
> 
> Hello!
> 
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 12:11 PM, Thomas Obenaus wrote:
>> - [cut] -
>> Sorry but I had no success. Following the instructions of the
>> wiki-article
>> the filename D:\wör\bf.vtk should be converted to D:\W_R\BF.VTK (all
>> unknown
>> characters replaced by an underscore).
> 
> i think you misunderstood something.
> 
> All file/directory-paths that contains special characters should be
> accessed by using their (dos) 8.3 name.
> 
> you may view this name by using the (dos) command DIR <file/dir-name> /X
> e.g: 'wör', in  8.3 notation is 'WRBFDA~1'  (on my computer).
> 
> getting this 8.3 name should be possible  (sorry, i'm not a c++ coder)
> over the WinAPI 'GetShortPathNameA' call.
> 
> hth mirko
> 
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