|| Илья Москвин on 2010-02-25 21:54
|| Priority: Low
|| Affected: None
|| Category: highgui-gui
|| Tracker: Feature
|| Difficulty: None
|| PR: None
|| Platform: None / None

We use the new Python bindings and have to use non-english chars in window names and file pathes. Please, couldn@t you add Unicode support to OpenCV, if possible?

It's still not possible to build OpenCV (highgui module) with unicode support (platform windows 7, visual studio 2010, OpenCV SVN, 32 bit).
This makes it almost impossible to use OpenCV with wxWidgets > 2.9, which defaults to unicode.

-   Description changed from We use the new Python bindings and have to
    use non-english chars in window n... to We use the new Python
    bindings and have to use non-english chars in window n... More

1. OpenCV can create files with non-English names when they are encoded using UTF-8 and passed as normal text strings (tested on Linux and MacOSX).
2. Since OpenCV does not yet support Python 3.x and in Python 2.x text strings are encoded with UTF-8 (i.e. in the format as OpenCV expects it), it's possible to pass a unicode filename to OpenCV function directly using UTF-8 encoding.
3. On Windows it can work too, but instead of UTF-8 the current 1-byte encoding should be used.

So, it's possible (and there is always rename() function in the case of file names); Therefore, I lower the priority of the task.
-   Priority changed from High to Low
-   Assignee set to Vadim Pisarevsky

-   Category changed from highgui-images to highgui-gui