[vtkusers] VTK and Unicode

[David Gobbi]

An unresolved symbol just means that you have to link to the library,
e.g. if you have a target_link_libraries() call in your CMakeLists.txt,
make sure that "vtksys" is listed.

On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Maarten Beek <beekmaarten at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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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