[vtkusers] VTK 6 vtkTextActor Unicode status?

[Sean McBride]

Hi all,

I noticed this in the VTK 6 release announcement:

"* VTK’s text rendering capabilities are greatly extended. In particular, text can be output to vector graphics friendly raw Bezier curves, system fonts may now be accessed through the FreeTypeFontConfig module, and mathematical equations can now be rendering using the matplotlib Python package."

So can vtkTextActor show Unicode now?

Obviously one would need a font with the desired characters/glyphs, but it seems the default OS font could now be specified... Does the SetInput() expect UTF-8 now?

Thanks,

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