[R-sig-Geo] readOGR does not read file names with accent

[Roger Bivand]

Patrick:

Is there also a space in the file path? What is the locale, I guess CP1252?

Best wishes,

Roger Bivand
Norwegian School of Economics
Bergen, Norway



Fra: Patrick Giraudoux
Sendt: torsdag 15. februar, 07.45
Emne: readOGR does not read file names with accent
Til: r-sig-geo at r-project.org
Kopi: Roger Bivand


Dear all,
My plateform is Windows 7. I am meeting trouble when reading a shapefile with rgdal:readOGR when the file name includes an accent.
For instance,
readOGR("./track génét/gélinotte/2017/Trémontagne","trace_chaux_du_dombief.shp") is well read
BUT
readOGR("./track génét/gélinotte/2017/Trémontagne","tracé_chaux_du_dombief.shp") gives
Error in ogrInfo(dsn = dsn, layer = layer, encoding = encoding, use_iconv = use_iconv,  :
  Cannot open layer
In both cases accents in the path are well accepted. The difference just come from accent in the filename.
Any idea about a workaround (except trivial: manually changing accents to non accent ;-): I have tens of files to read)?
Best,
Patrick




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