[R-SIG-Mac] problem with character encoding in file names in R 3.2

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 03/05/2015 3:11 PM, Denis Chabot wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I don’t quite know how to produce a repeatable example for you because the problem I have seems to be caused by folder names on my computer.
> 
> Yesterday I was still using R 3.1.2 and there was no problem with this issue. 
> 
> Today with R3.2 it does not.
> 
> Input = "../data/"
> juvcodData = paste0(Input, "Données respirométrie SDA morues juv/« )  # the name of this folder contains accented vowels
> 
> a = 1:10folder1 = paste0(Input, "Données respirométrie SDA morues juv/")
> folder2 = paste0(Input, "Donnees respirometrie SDA morues juv/")
> 
> a = 1:10
> save(a, file="bé.Rda ») #1

What you posted here doesn't have regular quotation marks.  I'm not sure
about the opening one, but the closing one has been converted to a
guillemet.  R would never have accepted this as input, so what you're
showing is is probably not what you actually did.

You also don't say exactly what happened, just that it didn't work.

Could you please post again, simplifying to just one string that fails,
and explain exactly how it fails?  I am sure that having save() call
paste() will not result in any difference from just calling paste() on
its own, and likewise manually typing the full string should produce the
same result as constructing it via paste().  (But I am not sure that
paste() is producing what you want.)

Thanks.

Duncan Murdoch
> save(a, file=paste(Input, "bé.Rda »)) #2
> save(a, file=paste(folder1, "bé.Rda »)) #3
> save(a, file=paste(folder1, "be.Rda »)) #4
> save(a, file=paste(folder2, "bé.Rda »)) #5
> save(a, file=paste(folder2, "be.Rda »)) #6
> 
> 
> All files were saved with the name I expected, except for # 3: 
> bé (Conflit lié au codage Unicode).Rda
> with the bracket loosely translating to « Conflict related/caused(?) to Unicode coding » 
> 
> So if there is an accented vowel somewhere along the path already defined in R, and the name I want to give the file, the file name is so altered. If the is an accent only in one of the two, no problem. As I said, there was no such problem with R 3.1.2.
> 
> The problem is probably not due to R itself, as this works:
>> paste0(folder1, "bé.Rda")
> [1] "../data/Données respirométrie SDA morues juv/bé.Rda »
> 
> But when R uses this string as a path name when saving a file, I get the problem above.
> 
> Thanks for any help or suggestion,
> 
> Denis
> 
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 3.2.0 (2015-04-16)
> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0 (64-bit)
> Running under: OS X 10.10.3 (Yosemite)
> 
> locale:
> [1] fr_CA.UTF-8/fr_CA.UTF-8/fr_CA.UTF-8/C/fr_CA.UTF-8/fr_CA.UTF-8
> 
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     
> 
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] tools_3.2.0
> 
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