[vtkusers] VTK and Unicode

[Maarten Beek]

Hi David,

Thanks for the quick reply.

Sounds complicated, but I'll browse through the windows docs.

In my search for a solution I also bumped into vtksys::Encoding::ToNarrow(), however this gives me an 'unresolved external symbol' link error. I have never used stuff in vtksys (and similar libs like vtkpng, vtktiff) before, so I am not really sure I am supposed to, i.e., these are just functions used by cmake and/or in just the vtk build.

Maarten



On Thursday, June 5, 2014 3:44:46 PM, David Gobbi <david.gobbi at gmail.com> wrote:
 


Hi Maarten,

VTK just uses C++ streams in most of its readers/writers.  On OS X,
you'll find that you can use utf-8 filenames just fine.  Same for linux,
for the most part at least.

For Windows, you'd have to set the codepage to 65001 (utf-8).  I've
done this successfully for console I/O (via SetConsoleOutputCP()),
but you'll have to look through the Windows docs to see what function
is needed to change the codepage used by CreateFileA.

- David



On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 1:17 PM, Maarten Beek <beekmaarten at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I was wondering if there is a multi-platform way of loading a file (e.g.
> tif, stl) with chinese, russian characters in the file path in VTK.
> How would I build VTK with Unicode characters?
> Can I use a non-unicode VTK in a unicode app?
>
> Thanks - Maarten
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