[Insight-developers] Image writing with unicode filename impossible with MSVC

[Brad King]

Luis Ibanez wrote:
> Your suggestion of moving vtkUnicodeString to kwsys
> makes a lot of sense.
> 
> We are checking with the maintainers of kwsys, to see
> if there are any drawbacks...
> 
> --
> 
> The second option:  adopting the  utf-cpp  library, also
> looks good. the license is essentially the MIT license:
> http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
> 
> and the size of the library is just 132 Kb.
> 
> 
> Let's see first what we hear from kwsys gurus.

As the primary maintainer of KWSys I prefer to put as little
in the library as possible.  I think using a specialized third
party Unicode library is better, especially because its authors
ought to know more about it than I do.

-Brad