Paths with accented characters give error when opening files

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Author Name: Pierre-Luc Auclair (Pierre-Luc Auclair)
Original Redmine Issue: 5576
Affected QGIS version: master

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If you try to open a file and its path contains accented characters, the file will not load, giving error : ".../is not a valid or recognized data source".

From osgeo4w setup.

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Author Name: Pierre-Luc Auclair (Pierre-Luc Auclair)

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Note, this doesn't seem to happen on every type of file formats.

.xls files do not work, while .shp do.

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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It is a blocker only if it is a regression (in qgis-master aka 1.8 aka Lisboa) since 1.7.4, con you confirm is a regression?

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• status_id was changed from Open to Feedback

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Author Name: Pierre-Luc Auclair (Pierre-Luc Auclair)

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I can't confirm it's a regression.

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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Pierre-Luc Auclair wrote:

I can't confirm it's a regression.

ok, I'll change the priority, change it again if you have evidence it is a regression. Cheers!

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• priority_id was changed from Severe/Regression to Normal

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Author Name: Jürgen Fischer (@jef-n)

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• status_id was changed from Feedback to Open

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Author Name: Pierre-Luc Auclair (Pierre-Luc Auclair)

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I just tried with latest builds, it's still broken for .xls files. It seems to be the only problematic filetype. It's not in the supported formats when you import a layer nor does it show up in the browser window, is it possible that QGIS doesn't know how to handle the paths for this new filetype yet ?

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Author Name: Pierre-Luc Auclair (Pierre-Luc Auclair)

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Still broken, what's the status on this ?

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Author Name: Paolo Cavallini (@pcav)

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• fixed_version_id was changed from Version 1.8.0 to Version 2.0.0

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Author Name: Minoru Akagi (@minorua)

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This issue has already been fixed in GDAL. With GDAL 1.10, we will be able to open xls files that include non-ascii characters in the paths on Windows.

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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• resolution was changed from to up-/downstream
• status_id was changed from Open to Closed