[Paraview] questions

Berk Geveci berk.geveci at kitware.com
Wed Jun 4 15:47:24 EDT 2008


Which file format are we talking about?

On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 3:39 PM, John Doe <ufnoise at gmail.com> wrote:
> Could you please let me know which source file reads the ascii format?
>
> Regards,
>
> Juan
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 2:26 PM, Berk Geveci <berk.geveci at kitware.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 11:18 AM, John Doe <ufnoise at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Comments inline:
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 7:25 AM, Berk Geveci <berk.geveci at kitware.com> wrote:
>>>>> I am starting to evaluate paraview for a project and I am curious
>>>>> about a few things:
>>>>>
>>>>> File formats:
>>>>>
>>>>> Does the vtk ascii format support unicode data set names?  If it
>>>>> doesn't, is there a format that does?
>>>>
>>>> I am afraid that you will find VTK (the underlying computing layer of
>>>> ParaView) and ParaView lacking quite a bit in supporting anything but
>>>> ASCII. Can you elaborate a bit more what you need? Do you need the
>>>> whole user interface to support unicode or just the dataset names? And
>>>> what do you mean by "dataset name"? Names of the field variables?
>>>
>>> My program uses utf-8.  I want to allow users to use symbols for their
>>> data, such as psi (u03c8) for potential, and script E (u2130) for
>>> electric field.
>>
>> I am afraid this is not supported yet.
>>
>> -berk
>>
>


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