[vtkusers] bug 0009618 and UTF 8 text rendering fix question

[Sean McBride]

On Sun, 5 Dec 2010 16:13:38 -0500, Marcus D. Hanwell said:

>On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 10:22 AM, pof <jd379252 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Actually,
>> bug 0009618 has still an open status in Mantis, it should be closed
now, but
>> I do not know who can do this!
>> Sorry if this question sounds a bit stupid, but how can I check if these
>> fixes are on master?
>
>I merged the changes into master for accented characters, I was not
>aware of this bug report at the time. I have assigned the bug to
>myself and marked it as resolved. I then realized that the drop shadow
>patch has not been merged, and so reopened the bug. I will try to make
>some time to check out the patch and get it merged if it looks good on
>all platforms.
>
>I am not as familiar with the drop shadow code, but am the one who has
>spent the most time working with FreeType classes in VTK recently. I
>would like to get this into the 5.8 release if it looks OK, and can
>confirm the accented characters patch is already in and will be in the
>next release.

Marcus,

Just to clarify, what encoding should be given to vtkTextActor::SetInput
()?  Last I tried, it seemed to expect ISO-8859-1.  Certainly a step up
from ASCII!  Is the long term plan for it to accept UTF8?

Cheers,

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