Bug 17181 - png() doesn't handle UTF-8 encoded filenames
Summary: png() doesn't handle UTF-8 encoded filenames
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: R
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Windows GUI / Window specific (show other bugs)
Version: R-devel (trunk)
Hardware: Other Other
: P5 minor
Assignee: R-core
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Reported: 2016-11-14 21:38 UTC by Kevin Ushey
Modified: 2016-11-14 21:38 UTC (History)
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Description Kevin Ushey 2016-11-14 21:38:18 UTC 
To reproduce:

> setwd(tempdir())
> path <- iconv("brûlée.png", to = "UTF-8")
> png(filename = path)
> dev.off()
null device 
          1 
> list.files()
[1] "brûlée.png"

Note that the string 'brûlée' can be represented in the system locale in this case (latin1); I believe the issue is a missing translation from UTF-8 to the system encoding when generating the file. Note that 'brûlée' is the correct byte-sequence for the above UTF-8 encoded string; those bytes are simply being mis-interpreted in the system encoding.

Perhaps there's a missing 'translateChar()' call somewhere?

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> sessionInfo()
R Under development (unstable) (2016-11-13 r71655)
Platform: i386-w64-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)
Running under: Windows 7 x64 (build 7601) Service Pack 1

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252 
[2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252   
[3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C                          
[5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252    

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_3.4.0