[Paraview] questions

[John Doe]

I'd be interested in what is referred to as the legacy file format and
has the header:
# vtk DataFile Version 3.1

Since QT has native unicode support, I'd be interested in seeing how
hard it would be to allow utf-8 scalar names.  I would consider either
writing vtk files in utf-8 or in escape sequences (e.g. \u03c8).

I'd be happy to provide a patch or a plugin enabling such a capability.

Regards,

Juan

On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Berk Geveci <berk.geveci at kitware.com> wrote:
> 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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