Re: Non-ASCII user names on Windows; internationalization fun

[Dirk Loss <lists () dirk-loss de>]

David Fifield wrote:
> Currently we use os.path.expanduser("~"), 
> decoded from the filesystem encoding, to get the user's home directory.
> os.path.expanduser reads the environment variable HOME, which simply
> doesn't work for users with the names we've discussed. You get back a
> bunch of question marks. If someone knows a good way to get the home
> directory using the Python standard library, I'm all ears.

Googling turned up this potential solution [1]:
home = os.path.expanduser("~").decode(sys.getfilesystemencoding())

I haven't been able to test whether it really works, though.

Regards
Dirk

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/elisa/0.3/+bug/242179

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