[Rd] (PR#13195) Can't open files containing russian letters in path

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Tue, 4 Nov 2008, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> Can we please have a reproducible example, as well as all the details 
> requested in the posting guide.
>
> There are literally tens of different ways to 'open files' in R, and some at 
> least with Cyrillic file names.  Nor is there any obvious difference between 
> 2.8.0 and 2.7.2 patched.

Here is one working example:

> nm <- "БҖц"
> writeLines(letters, nm)
> readLines(nm)
  [1] "a" "b" "c" "d" "e" "f" "g" "h" "i" "j" "k" "l" "m" "n" "o" "p" "q" "r" "s"
[20] "t" "u" "v" "w" "x" "y" "z"


and the file name in Windows Explorer is indeed in Cyrillic.  This even 
works for me in Western European Windows.  So your assertion is definitely 
incorrect as far as file() connections are concerned.

>
> On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, asherman at ksu.ru wrote:
>
>> Full_Name: Arkady  Sherman
>> Version: 2.8.0
>> OS: Windows XP sp3 ntfs file system
>> Submission from: (NULL) (158.195.166.129)
>> 
>> 
>> Freshly installed version 2.7.2 works well, but 2.8.0 can't open files with
>> russian letters in its names. In error messages the letters are replaced 
>> with
>> different symbols.
>> 
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Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
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