[vtkusers] ck

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Hi vkt'ers

actually I've already submitted almost the same post on 2009/01/11 (see http://www.vtk.org/pipermail/vtkusers/2009-January/098973.html), same problem but now
with vtk5.4.2 (was vtk5.2.1 in the previous post).
I was hoping that this problem would have disappeared in the latest release, 
unfortunately this is not the case.

Here is a small description again:

I'am trying to upgrade from vtk5.0.4 to vtk5.4.2 .
I end up with two problems when rendering vtkTextActor.
Basically :
- the shadow property looks rather strange in 5.4.2 (and 5.2.1) compared to 5.0.4
- accuentuated characters (é, è...) are no longer displayed in 5.4.2 (and 5.2.1)

Note : all vtk version were compiled with VC++2005 under WinVista, with the same options.

I can hardly believe that I am the only one that is having this problem, although I admit this occurs only with non standard characters (accentuated).

So my question again:
- any idea where this behaviour change comes from?
- any hint to solve it?

Thanks in advance

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Below a small test that reproduce the problem.

//
// test for vtkTextActor
//
#include "vtkActor.h"
#include "vtkRenderer.h"
#include "vtkRenderWindow.h"
#include "vtkRenderWindowInteractor.h"
#include "vtkCamera.h"
#include "vtkTextProperty.h"
#include "vtkTextActor.h"

int main()
{
	// Create an example text actor.
	vtkTextActor *textActor = vtkTextActor::New();
	textActor->GetPositionCoordinate()->SetCoordinateSystemToNormalizedViewport();
	textActor->SetPosition(0.50,0.50);
	textActor->SetInput("vtk5.0.4\n\nCharacters without accents\n\nCaractères accentués");
	textActor->GetTextProperty()->SetFontSize(40);
	textActor->GetTextProperty()->SetFontFamilyToArial();
	textActor->GetTextProperty()->SetJustificationToCentered();
	textActor->GetTextProperty()->BoldOn();
	textActor->GetTextProperty()->ItalicOn();
	textActor->GetTextProperty()->ShadowOn();
	textActor->GetTextProperty()->SetColor(1, 0, 0);

	// Create the graphics structure.
	vtkRenderer *ren = vtkRenderer::New();
	vtkRenderWindow *renWin = vtkRenderWindow::New();

	renWin->AddRenderer(ren);
	renWin->SetSize(600, 600);

	vtkRenderWindowInteractor *iren = vtkRenderWindowInteractor::New();
	iren->SetRenderWindow(renWin);

	// Add the actor to the renderer, set the background and size
	ren->AddActor(textActor);
	ren->SetBackground(0.1, 0.2, 0.4);
	ren->ResetCamera();
	ren->GetActiveCamera()->Zoom(1.0);
	renWin->Render();

	// This starts the event loop and as a side effect causes an initial render.
	iren->Start();

	// Exiting from here, we have to delete all the created instances
	textActor->Delete();
	ren->Delete();
	renWin->Delete();
	iren->Delete();

	return 0;
}