[issue13207] os.path.expanduser breaks when using unicode character in the username

Arkady “KindDragon” Shapkin added the comment: At least Python 2.7 should return in locale.getpreferredencoding() encoding -- nosy: +Arkady “KindDragon” Shapkin ___ Python tracker __

[issue13207] os.path.expanduser breaks when using unicode character in the username

STINNER Victor added the comment: Python 2 uses byte strings. If characters are not encodable to the ANSI code page, Windows replaces them by question marks. See the issue #13247 for another example (in Python 3 when using explicitly the bytes API). To be able to support characters not encoda

[issue13207] os.path.expanduser breaks when using unicode character in the username

Santoso Wijaya added the comment: Unicode environment vars work properly in Python 3.x on Windows, too, because the convertenviron() function in posixmodule.c uses extern _wenviron PyUnicode_FromWideChar() in Python 3.x. In Python 2.7, convertenviron() uses extern environ and PyString_FromStr

[issue13207] os.path.expanduser breaks when using unicode character in the username

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[issue13207] os.path.expanduser breaks when using unicode character in the username

Éric Araujo added the comment: On POSIX, Python 3 works correctly if my home dir is /tmp/éric, and Python 2.7 returns a UTF-8-encoded (not locale-encoded!) bytes string. For Windows, a patch would probably need to add a private function to the _nt module (in C): ctypes is too dangerous to be

[issue13207] os.path.expanduser breaks when using unicode character in the username

Changes by Florent Xicluna : -- nosy: +flox title: os.path.expanduser brakes when using unicode character in the username -> os.path.expanduser breaks when using unicode character in the username ___ Python tracker