UTF-8 characters in filename for `agg_png`

[Darxor]

I've noticed that agg_png doesn't handle UTF-8 in file names well.

Example

library(ragg)

file <- "русское_название.png"
agg_png(file)
plot(sin, -pi, 2*pi)
dev.off()

Above code produces a file named русское_название.png instead of русское_название.png, like grDevices::png would. If a path has a UTF-8 in folder names, device would fail to write with agg could not write to the given file error.

I've tried to wrap filename with enc2native or enc2utf8, but it doesn't seem to help.

Session info

R version 4.1.0 (2021-05-18)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 19043)

Matrix products: default

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=Russian_Russia.1251  LC_CTYPE=Russian_Russia.1251   
[3] LC_MONETARY=Russian_Russia.1251 LC_NUMERIC=C                   
[5] LC_TIME=Russian_Russia.1251    

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

other attached packages:
[1] ragg_1.1.3

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_4.1.0    tools_4.1.0       textshaping_0.3.5
[4] systemfonts_1.0.2

[thomasp85]

Thanks for this, that is an error on my part as I don't handle encoding correctly on the input string...

[thomasp85]

Can I get you to test the current development version and see if your issue is fixed?

[Darxor]

Thanks for the attention on the issue! I've tried current dev version, and the problem is still there.

Current session info:

> sessionInfo()
R version 4.1.1 (2021-08-10)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 19043)

Matrix products: default

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=Russian_Russia.1251  LC_CTYPE=Russian_Russia.1251    LC_MONETARY=Russian_Russia.1251 LC_NUMERIC=C                    LC_TIME=Russian_Russia.1251    

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

other attached packages:
[1] ragg_1.1.3.9000

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_4.1.1         tools_4.1.1            textshaping_0.3.5      systemfonts_1.0.2.9000

[thomasp85]

hmm... in that case it is a bit more complicated... Windows have never been particularly kind to UTF-8 😕

I'll try to see if I can come up with a fix

[thomasp85]

Can I get you to try with current level again?

[thomasp85]

Also, can I get you to test with a tiff file as well? libtiff uses its own file open functions so I don't know if it exhibit the same issues

[Darxor]

Issue for png seems to be solved now, yay! Works nicely for png, jpeg and ppm now. But Its there for tiff though, you were right on checking that.

[thomasp85]

Thanks for confirming - tiff is a more difficult mountain to climb so it will probably not get fixed for this release, but I'll look into a fix later.

Keeping this open to remind me