vtkTextActor does not allow any encoding, only supports plain ASCII.
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Currently, vtkFreeTypeUtilities is used to render text from a vtkTextActor. The string is parsed character by character using a char*. It only supports plain ASCII as it does not allow to use multiple bytes encoding. Therefore, it is not possible to display some french or other europeen characters such as accents.