<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="" class="">For completeness:<br style=""></div><div style="" class=""><span style="" class="">The following code enables me to load a file with a non-Canadian character into vtkImageReader2 on a Canadian computer. </span><span style="" class=""><span style="" class="">Except the last line needed to be commented out to avoid a crash, but this might be a Qt issue....</span> Of course this code is not multi-platform and it won't work if the short path feature is turned off for the hard drive.<br style="" class=""></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class=""><span style="" class=""><br style="" class=""></span></div><div
class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br style="" class=""><span style="" class=""></span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="" class="">QString qFilename = <bla-bla>;<br></span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br style="" class=""><span style="" class=""></span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style:
normal;"><span style="" class="">wchar_t* wchFilename = new wchar_t[qFilename.length()];</span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="" class="">int len = </span><span style="" class="">qFilename.toWCharArray(</span><span style="" class=""><span style="" class="">wchFilename</span>);</span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="" class=""><span style="" class="">wchFilename</span>[len2] = '\0';</span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br style=""
class=""><span style="" class=""></span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="" class="">ulong len2 = GetShortPathNameW(</span><span style="" class=""><span style="" class="">wchFilename</span>, NULL, 0);</span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="" class="">wchar_t* wchShortFilename = new wchar_t[len2];</span><br style="" class=""><span style="" class="">GetShortPathNameW(</span><span style="" class=""><span style="" class="">wchFilename</span>, </span><span style="" class=""><span style="" class="">wchShortFilename</span>, len2);</span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px;
font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br style="" class=""><span style="" class=""></span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="" class="">int len3 = WideCharToMultiByte(CP_ACP, 0, </span><span style="" class=""><span style="" class="">wchShortFilename, lstrlenW(</span></span><span style="" class=""><span style="" class=""><span style="" class="">wchShortFileName</span>)+1, NULL, 0, NULL, NULL);</span></span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="" class=""><span style="" class="">char* chFilename = new
char[len3];</span></span><br style="" class=""><span style="" class="">WideCharToMultiByte(CP_ACP, 0, </span><span style="" class=""><span style="" class="">wchShortFilename, lstrlenW(</span></span><span style="" class=""><span style="" class=""><span style="" class="">wchShortFilename</span>)+1, </span></span><span style="" class=""><span style="" class=""><span style="" class=""><span style="" class="">chFilename</span></span>, </span></span><span style="" class=""><span style="" class=""><span style="" class=""><span style="" class="">len3</span></span>, NULL, NULL);</span></span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br style="" class=""><span style="" class=""><span style="" class=""></span></span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family:
HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="" class=""><span style="" class="">loadFile(chFilename);</span></span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br style="" class=""><span style="" class=""><span style="" class=""></span></span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="" class=""><span style="" class="">delete [] chFilename;</span></span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style:
normal;"><span style="" class=""><span style="" class="">delete []</span></span><span style="" class=""> wchShortFilename;</span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="" class="">//delete [] </span><span style="" class="">wchFilename; // crash<br style="" class=""></span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br style="" class=""><span style="" class=""></span></div><span style="" class=""><br style="" class="">Maarten<br style="" class=""></span> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial,
Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="" class="" dir="ltr"> <font style="" class="" face="Arial" size="2"> On Friday, June 6, 2014 1:15:09 PM, David Gobbi <david.gobbi@gmail.com> wrote:<br style="" class=""> </font> </div> <br style="" class=""><br style="" class=""> <div style="" class="">That's a pretty good summary of the situation. Since<br style="" class="" clear="none">there is no option in VTK to use unicode filenames,<br style="" class="" clear="none">you're at the mercy of whatever codepage is active<br style="" class="" clear="none">on the user's computer.<br style="" class="" clear="none"><br style="" class="" clear="none"> David<br style="" class="" clear="none"><br style="" class="" clear="none"><div style="" class="" id="yqtfd14041"><br style="" class="" clear="none">On Fri, Jun
6, 2014 at 11:03 AM, Maarten Beek <<a style="" class="" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:beekmaarten@yahoo.com" href="mailto:beekmaarten@yahoo.com">beekmaarten@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br style="" class="" clear="none">> So I program I make in Canada, would work normally in China? However as soon<br style="" class="" clear="none">> as I use Chinese characters or the user in China uses Russian characters,<br style="" class="" clear="none">> things will break in Windows?<br style="" class="" clear="none">><br style="" class="" clear="none">> So before I try to read a file, I'll have to guess the code page first?<br style="" class="" clear="none">> In other words, apply WideCharToMultiByte() with different codepages until I<br style="" class="" clear="none">> can successfully read the file?<br style="" class="" clear="none">><br style="" class="" clear="none">> Now I have to figure out how to set a codepage...<br style="" class=""
clear="none">><br style="" class="" clear="none">> Maarten<br style="" class="" clear="none">><br style="" class="" clear="none">><br style="" class="" clear="none">><br style="" class="" clear="none">> On Friday, June 6, 2014 12:30:15 PM, David Gobbi <<a style="" class="" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:david.gobbi@gmail.com" href="mailto:david.gobbi@gmail.com">david.gobbi@gmail.com</a>><br style="" class="" clear="none">> wrote:<br style="" class="" clear="none">><br style="" class="" clear="none">><br style="" class="" clear="none">> Well, in China people use the Chinese edition of Windows which defaults<br style="" class="" clear="none">> to a Chinese codepage... so everything works fine for them as long as<br style="" class="" clear="none">> they stick to Chinese.<br style="" class="" clear="none">><br style="" class="" clear="none">> Things only get complicated when you try to mix several languages on
the<br style="" class="" clear="none">> same computer. Working with one language in isolation is never a problem.<br style="" class="" clear="none">><br style="" class="" clear="none">> OS X was very smart to standardize of utf-8. Linux has pretty much done<br style="" class="" clear="none">> the same. But Windows still uses a different 8-bit encoding for every<br style="" class="" clear="none">> language.<br style="" class="" clear="none">><br style="" class="" clear="none">> David<br style="" class="" clear="none">><br style="" class="" clear="none">><br style="" class="" clear="none">> On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 10:08 AM, Maarten Beek <<a style="" class="" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:beekmaarten@yahoo.com" href="mailto:beekmaarten@yahoo.com">beekmaarten@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br style="" class="" clear="none">>> Hi David,<br style="" class="" clear="none">>><br style="" class=""
clear="none">>> You're the only one replying to this thread and as long as you give me new<br style="" class="" clear="none">>> suggestions I keep poking ;-)<br style="" class="" clear="none">>><br style="" class="" clear="none">>> I started using WideCharToMultiByte() directly as well, but this returns a<br style="" class="" clear="none">>> '?' on the spot of my Chinese character. VtkImageReader2 (and I think all<br style="" class="" clear="none">>> other readers as well) cannot find a file with this file name.<br style="" class="" clear="none">>><br style="" class="" clear="none">>> How do people use VTK in China (or Russia, Greece...)?<br style="" class="" clear="none">>><br style="" class="" clear="none">>> Maarten<br style="" class="" clear="none">>><br style="" class="" clear="none">>><br style="" class="" clear="none">>> On Friday, June 6, 2014 11:41:22 AM, David Gobbi
<<a style="" class="" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:david.gobbi@gmail.com" href="mailto:david.gobbi@gmail.com">david.gobbi@gmail.com</a>><br style="" class="" clear="none">>> wrote:<br style="" class="" clear="none">>><br style="" class="" clear="none">>><br style="" class="" clear="none">>> Hi Maarten,<br style="" class="" clear="none">>><br style="" class="" clear="none">>> I've never used ToNarrow() myself, so I think you're relying a bit too<br style="" class="" clear="none">>> much on my expertise ;)<br style="" class="" clear="none">>><br style="" class="" clear="none">>> However, I have used WideCharToMultiByte() directly, and if given<br style="" class="" clear="none">>> CP_UTF8 as the first argument, it converts to UTF8. It simply does<br style="" class="" clear="none">>> the conversion according to the codepage passed in the first argument.<br style="" class=""
clear="none">>><br style="" class="" clear="none">>> - David<br style="" class="" clear="none">>><br style="" class="" clear="none">>> On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 9:14 AM, Maarten Beek <<a style="" class="" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:beekmaarten@yahoo.com" href="mailto:beekmaarten@yahoo.com">beekmaarten@yahoo.com</a>><br style="" class="" clear="none">>> wrote:<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>> Hi David,<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>><br style="" class="" clear="none">>>> After copying the ushort string into a wchar_t string, ::ToNarrow() would<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>> return nonsense.<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>><br style="" class="" clear="none">>>> I gave the variable KWSYS_ENCODING_DEFAULT_CODEPAGE the value CP_UTF8<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>> (defaults to CP_ACP in the vtksys CMakeLists.txt if nothing is
defined)<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>> by<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>> using the add entry button in CMake.<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>> After rebuilding VTK, this didn't solve the problem.<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>><br style="" class="" clear="none">>>> Would the codepage setting of the computer have to be set to CP_UTF8 at<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>> the<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>> moment of file creation for this to work? Although, this wouldn't affect<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>> my<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>> problem of getting the correct char* into the SetFileName() function.<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>> Would<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>> it?<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>><br style="" class="" clear="none">>>> Maarten<br style=""
class="" clear="none">>>><br style="" class="" clear="none">>>><br style="" class="" clear="none">>>> On Thursday, June 5, 2014 6:45:38 PM, David Gobbi <<a style="" class="" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:david.gobbi@gmail.com" href="mailto:david.gobbi@gmail.com">david.gobbi@gmail.com</a>><br style="" class="" clear="none">>>> wrote:<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>><br style="" class="" clear="none">>>><br style="" class="" clear="none">>>> Hi Maarten,<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>><br style="" class="" clear="none">>>> Yes, vtksys::Encoding::ToNarrow() requires a wchart_t *. If you like to<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>> live<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>> dangerously, you could just use a reinterpret_cast to convert your ushort<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>> *<br style="" class=""
clear="none">>>> to a wchar_t *, but to be safe you should allocate a wchar_t string of<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>> the<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>> right size and then copy your ushort string into it.<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>><br style="" class="" clear="none">>>> VTK doesn't have any cmake options related to unicode. All file-level<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>> stuff<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>> in VTK always uses 8-bit strings no matter what build options you choose.<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>><br style="" class="" clear="none">>>> David<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>><br style="" class="" clear="none">>>><br style="" class="" clear="none">>>> On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 4:20 PM, Maarten Beek <<a style="" class="" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:beekmaarten@yahoo.com"
href="mailto:beekmaarten@yahoo.com">beekmaarten@yahoo.com</a>><br style="" class="" clear="none">>>> wrote:<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>> It's complaining about the ToNarrow() function.<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>> (... symbol "__declspec(dllimport) <bla-bla> __cdecl<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>> vtksys::Encoding::ToNarrow(<bla-bla>) referenced in function <bla-bla> )<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>><br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>> I got the VS solution from svn before my unicode changes and added the<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>> ToNarrow() function and everything builds fine.<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>> I guess if I build my app with unicode, I should do this with VTK as<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>> well<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>>
(how? don't see such an option in cmake...).<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>><br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>><br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>> However the app crashes in Debug, but not in Release.<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>> In another app, I need to set wchar_t as a build-in type to avoid the<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>> unresolved external symbol error, but then an ushort* (returned by<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>> QString::utf16()) cannot be cast to a wchar_t*... I guess<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>> ::ToNarrow(const<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>> wchar_t*) needs a ::ToNarrow(const ushort*) overload?<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>><br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>> Maarten<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>><br style="" class=""
clear="none">>>>><br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>><br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>> On Thursday, June 5, 2014 5:03:56 PM, David Gobbi<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>> <<a style="" class="" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:david.gobbi@gmail.com" href="mailto:david.gobbi@gmail.com">david.gobbi@gmail.com</a>><br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>> wrote:<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>><br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>><br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>> Hi Maarten,<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>><br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>> I use the functions in vtksys all the time. Not specifically the<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>> Encoding functions, but they shouldn't be any different.<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>><br style="" class=""
clear="none">>>>> You said it reported an unresolved symbol error... what symbol<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>> was it complaining about?<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>><br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>> David<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>><br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>><br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>> On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 2:56 PM, Maarten Beek <<a style="" class="" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:beekmaarten@yahoo.com" href="mailto:beekmaarten@yahoo.com">beekmaarten@yahoo.com</a>><br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>> wrote:<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>>> I am linking my app with vtksys.lib.<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>>><br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>>> But your answer also tells me I can use this function in my app.<br style=""
class="" clear="none">>>>>><br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>>> So it must be something else... maybe the fact that my vtk is built<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>>> with<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>>> multibyte and the app with unicode?<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>>> Should find a function in vtksys that is unrelated to this to test.<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>>><br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>>> Maarten<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>>><br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>>><br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>>> On Thursday, June 5, 2014 4:31:20 PM, David Gobbi<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>>> <<a style="" class="" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:david.gobbi@gmail.com"
href="mailto:david.gobbi@gmail.com">david.gobbi@gmail.com</a>><br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>>> wrote:<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>>><br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>>><br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>>> An unresolved symbol just means that you have to link to the library,<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>>> e.g. if you have a target_link_libraries() call in your CMakeLists.txt,<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>>> make sure that "vtksys" is listed.<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>>><br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>>> On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Maarten Beek <<a style="" class="" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:beekmaarten@yahoo.com" href="mailto:beekmaarten@yahoo.com">beekmaarten@yahoo.com</a>><br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>>> wrote:<br style="" class=""
clear="none">>>>>>> Hi David,<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>>>><br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>>>> Thanks for the quick reply.<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>>>><br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>>>> Sounds complicated, but I'll browse through the windows docs.<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>>>><br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>>>> In my search for a solution I also bumped into<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>>>> vtksys::Encoding::ToNarrow(),<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>>>> however this gives me an 'unresolved external symbol' link error. I<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>>>> have<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>>>> never used stuff in vtksys (and similar libs like vtkpng, vtktiff)<br style="" class=""
clear="none">>>>>>> before,<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>>>> so I am not really sure I am supposed to, i.e., these are just<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>>>> functions<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>>>> used by cmake and/or in just the vtk build.<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>>>><br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>>>> Maarten<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>>>><br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>>>><br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>>>> On Thursday, June 5, 2014 3:44:46 PM, David Gobbi<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>>>> <<a style="" class="" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:david.gobbi@gmail.com" href="mailto:david.gobbi@gmail.com">david.gobbi@gmail.com</a>><br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>>>> wrote:<br
style="" class="" clear="none">>>>>>><br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>>>><br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>>>> Hi Maarten,<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>>>><br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>>>> VTK just uses C++ streams in most of its readers/writers. On OS X,<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>>>> you'll find that you can use utf-8 filenames just fine. Same for<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>>>> linux,<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>>>> for the most part at least.<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>>>><br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>>>> For Windows, you'd have to set the codepage to 65001 (utf-8). I've<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>>>> done this successfully for console I/O (via
SetConsoleOutputCP()),<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>>>> but you'll have to look through the Windows docs to see what function<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>>>> is needed to change the codepage used by CreateFileA.<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>>>><br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>>>> - David<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>>>><br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>>>><br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>>>> On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 1:17 PM, Maarten Beek <<a style="" class="" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:beekmaarten@yahoo.com" href="mailto:beekmaarten@yahoo.com">beekmaarten@yahoo.com</a>><br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>>>> wrote:<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>>>>> Hi all,<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>>>>><br style=""
class="" clear="none">>>>>>>> I was wondering if there is a multi-platform way of loading a file<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>>>>> (e.g.<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>>>>> tif, stl) with chinese, russian characters in the file path in VTK.<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>>>>> How would I build VTK with Unicode characters?<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>>>>> Can I use a non-unicode VTK in a unicode app?<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>>>>><br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>>>>> Thanks - Maarten<br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>>>><br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>>>><br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>>><br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>>><br style="" class="" clear="none">>>>><br
style="" class="" clear="none">>>>><br style="" class="" clear="none">>>><br style="" class="" clear="none">>>><br style="" class="" clear="none">>><br style="" class="" clear="none">>><br style="" class="" clear="none">><br style="" class="" clear="none">><br style="" class="" clear="none"></div><br style="" class=""><br style="" class=""></div> </div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>