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read_excel on Windows fails to open a file from a UTF-8 encoded path containing special characters #370

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@mbeer

Using readxl 1.0.0 in R 3.4.0 for Windows, I recently came across an unexpected error when trying to open an Excel file containing a non-ASCII character in the file name. Depending on the encoding of the path variable, the import either works or fails:

> library(readxl)

> # Copy an example file to a path including a special character
> my.path <- "Tür.xlsx"

> file.copy(system.file("extdata", "datasets.xlsx", package="readxl"), my.path, overwrite = TRUE)
[1] TRUE

> # Try to open file with path in native encoding
> read_excel(enc2native(my.path))
# A tibble: 150 x 5
   Sepal.Length Sepal.Width Petal.Length Petal.Width Species
          <dbl>       <dbl>        <dbl>       <dbl>   <chr>
 1          5.1         3.5          1.4         0.2  setosa
 2          4.9         3.0          1.4         0.2  setosa
 3          4.7         3.2          1.3         0.2  setosa
 4          4.6         3.1          1.5         0.2  setosa
 5          5.0         3.6          1.4         0.2  setosa
 6          5.4         3.9          1.7         0.4  setosa
 7          4.6         3.4          1.4         0.3  setosa
 8          5.0         3.4          1.5         0.2  setosa
 9          4.4         2.9          1.4         0.2  setosa
10          4.9         3.1          1.5         0.1  setosa
# ... with 140 more rows

> # Try to open file with path in UTF-8 encoding
> read_excel(enc2utf8(my.path))
Error in read_fun(path = path, sheet = sheet, limits = limits, shim = shim,  : 
  Evaluation error: zip file 'Tür.xlsx' cannot be opened.

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