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

[Roger Bivand]

And with a further fix for a downstream encoding issue:

http://spatial.nhh.no/R/rgdal/rgdal_1.2-17.zip

Roger

On Thu, 15 Feb 2018, Roger Bivand wrote:

> Please try to install a draft version of rgdal at:
>
> https://win-builder.r-project.org/vvWJdd1isnsR
>
> and report on its performance for your charset:
>
> ogrInfo("./track génét/gélinotte/2017/Trémontagne",
>  "tracé_chaux_du_dombief")
>
> ogrListLayers("./track génét/gélinotte/2017/Trémontagne")
>
> etc. Beware that my email is probably encoded in UTF-8, so enter the 
> diacriticals on your own machine.
>
> Roger
>
> On Thu, 15 Feb 2018, Patrick Giraudoux wrote:
>
>>  PS: surprisingly, the files with accent are well read from QGIS (however
>>  QGIS uses gdal as workhorse...)
>> 
>> 
>>
>>  Le 15/02/2018 à 08:20, Patrick Giraudoux a écrit :
>>>>   Patrick:
>>>>
>>>>   Is there also a space in the file path? What is the locale, I guess
>>>>   CP1252?
>>>
>>>   My locale is fr;Français (France)
>>> 
>>>
>>>   Le 15/02/2018 à 07:57, Roger Bivand a écrit :
>>>>   ... and could you try sf::st_read(), as it uses enc2utf8() internally?
>>>>   If
>>>>   that works, the same may be used in rgdal.
>>>> 
>>>
>>>   st_read has the same issue: reads the file with no accent but not with
>>>   accent:
>>>
>>>   library(sf)
>>>   st_read("./track
>>>   génét/gélinotte/2017/Trémontagne","trace_chaux_du_dombief")
>>>   Reading layer `trace_chaux_du_dombief' from data source
>>>   `U:\Users\pgiraudo2\Documents\Tetra\Master Tony Vialet\track
>>>   génét\gélinotte\2017\Trémontagne' using driver `ESRI Shapefile'
>>>   Simple feature collection with 1 feature and 5 fields
>>>   geometry type:  LINESTRING
>>>   dimension:      XY
>>>   bbox:           xmin: 870249.9 ymin: 2180142 xmax: 871070 ymax: 2180930
>>>   epsg (SRID):    NA
>>>   proj4string:    NA
>>>
>>>   but
>>>
>>>   st_read("./track
>>>   génét/gélinotte/2017/Trémontagne","tracé_chaux_du_dombief")
>>>   Cannot open layer tracé_chaux_du_dombief
>>>   Error in CPL_read_ogr(dsn, layer, as.character(options), quiet, type, 
>>> :   Opening layer failed.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>
>

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