Merge pull request #131 from vit-tucek/unicode_home_dirs

properly handle unicode characters in home dirs
jupyter · Sep 19, 2019 · 340b63a · 340b63a
2 parents 3a344f7 + 10196a3
commit 340b63a
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diff --git a/jupyter_core/paths.py b/jupyter_core/paths.py
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 import stat
 import errno
 import tempfile
+from ipython_genutils import py3compat
 
 from contextlib import contextmanager
 from ipython_genutils import py3compat
@@ -31,6 +32,7 @@ def get_home_dir():
     # Next line will make things work even when /home/ is a symlink to
     # /usr/home as it is on FreeBSD, for example
     homedir = os.path.realpath(homedir)
+    homedir = py3compat.str_to_unicode(homedir, encoding=sys.getfilesystemencoding()) 
     return homedir
 
 _dtemps = {}