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

[Alok]

That worked! Worked like a charm
I cannot wrap my head around why I didnt try that myself

Thanks Dave
Much Appreciated

On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 11:36 AM, David Lonie <david.lonie at kitware.com>
wrote:

> 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,
>>>
>>> --
>>> ____________________________________________________________
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>>> Rogue Research                        www.rogue-research.com
>>> Mac Software Developer              Montréal, Québec, Canada
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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