[vtkusers] Unicode support

[Michael Xanadu]

Dear David,

thank you very much for your response. It helps a lot! :)
I'm not really sure, what is "VTK master"? The current 6.0 release? Does
VTK 5.8 or 5.10 also support Unicode?

Michael


2013/11/20 David Lonie <david.lonie at kitware.com>

> Hi Michael,
>
> Support for unicode character sets was exposed in VTK master a couple of
> months ago. The tricky bit is that you must provide a specific font file,
> as the fonts currently embedded in VTK only support ASCII characters (this
> will likely change in the future). The current way of enabling unicode
> fonts is to configure vtkTextProperty with the desired font file, for
> instance:
>
> vtkTextProperty *tprop = ...;
> tprop->SetFontFamily(VTK_FONT_FILE);
> tprop->SetFontFile("/path/to/some/font/file.ttf");
>
> Do this for the actors that you want unicode for, and the proper glyphs
> will be pulled from the supplied font file. This should work everywhere
> except for vtkVectorText, which uses an entirely different method of
> rendering text.
>
> See TestChartUnicode and TextContextUnicode in the Charts/Core module for
> examples.
>
> BTW, I recommend grabbing the DejaVu true type fonts -- they are rather
> openly licensed, and they are what we use internally for testing.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Dave
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Michael Xanadu <
> xanadu.michael at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear Friends,
>>
>> What is the current state concerning the support of unicode in VTK? E.g.
>> is it possible to display unicode charcters via vtkCaptionActor2D or
>> vtkCornerAnnotation? If yes, which requirements do I have to meet (version
>> etc.)?
>> I have not found any clear information about the topic via google so far.
>>
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Michale
>>
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