UNICODE Conversion
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#8 UNICODE Conversion
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2007-10-18
2007-10-18
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As part of the Beta build all the code has been converted to unicode. Painfull but assuming someone of asian origin is actually interested in electromagnetic modelling - had a look at the ieee authors list lately - huge numbers of people - or more precisely interested in porting the string tables and dialogs then the application will be accessible to a far larger audience = goodness.
Problem VTK the underlying graphics engine does not support unicode and I do not think branching vtk for my own use is wise - it would mean I am on my own when it comes to VTK releases and bugfixes
So what needs to be done is find a way to get VTK to display UNICODE strings for those display elements that are being used. I am thinking deriving a class from the VTK base just for the couple of places that I display text.
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very difficult to do - vtk relies upon Freetype for Fonts - which means that asian freetype fonts would need to be found and somehow associated with the kit based on locale.