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

[David Lonie]

Hi Alok,

As for the differences between vtkCornerAnnotation and vtkTextActor,
vtkCornerAnnotation uses the vtkTextMapper under the covers, which hasn't
seen as much attention lately as the other classes.

I don't have time at the moment to track down why the "\u00b0" literal is
getting garbled, but I did notice that using "\xb0" instead seems to be
work fine. It seems to be something screwy in the utf8 --> utf16 conversion
before rendering...

Try using "\xb0" instead and let me know if that works for you.

Hope this helps,
Dave

On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 5:04 PM, Alok <alok.theanomaly at gmail.com> wrote:

> I cloned the git repo some time time back and built from source
> The vtkTextActor/vtkTextWidget seem to be working fine with unicode but I
> see some other problems which make them unusable for me.
>
> Any recommendations on how to check the difference between
> vtkCornerAnnotation and the vtkTextActor will be great. Seems like an easy
> fix
>
> Thanks
>
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 4:49 PM, Sean McBride <sean at rogue-research.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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,
>>
>> --
>> ____________________________________________________________
>> Sean McBride, B. Eng                 sean at rogue-research.com
>> Rogue Research                        www.rogue-research.com
>> Mac Software Developer              Montréal, Québec, Canada
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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