[vtkusers] Displaying the degree symbol "\u00B0" in vtkCornerAnnotation

[Sean McBride]

On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 12:46:15 -0400, Alok said:

>I have been trying for a while to display a degree symbol in
>vtkCornerAnnotation.
>
>The way I am trying to do it is like this:
>std;:string angle = computeAngle()+"\u00B0";
>cornerAnnotation->SetText(3,angle.c_str()); //where cornerAnnotation if of
>type vtkCornerAnnotation.
>
>This displays something like 50° rather than 50°
>When I display the string on a terminal it works as expected.

In the past, VTK hasn't had very good Unicode support.  I'm not sure where it stands today actually.  What version of VTK are you using?  You'll have the best results with the newest version I expect.

Cheers,

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