[Insight-users] Using ITK with unicode character set

[Nithiananthan, Sajendra]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sean McBride
> 
> On 7/3/07 10:04 AM, Sébastien Fricker said:
> 
> >I assume that because char type is too small to hold Unicode 
> encoding so I
> >need to use wchar_t.
> 
> This assumption is incorrect.  I really suggest you read:
> <http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html>
> 
> char* is perfectly fine for a unicode string that is encoded as UTF8.
> 
> 
> After reading the above article, the question you should ask (and I
> don't know the answer) is "What encoding does ITK's 
> SetFileName() expect?".
> 
> -- 

char * might be perfectly fine for UTF8, but you can't guarantee that the
Windows File System will understand UTF-8.  Windows likes to use wide
characters for filenames (at least on some systems I've seen) so you have to
account for that.

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