[chirp_users] European characters in Windows user name

[Tom Hayward]

On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 11:55 PM, Eric Vought <evought at pobox.com> wrote:
> According to this:
> https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa365247(v=vs.85).aspx
> NTFS stores file names internally in Unicode, but there are several versions
> of the API calls to get short/long/Unicode names. So, since CHIRP uses
> Unicode internally, it is likely not a matter of converting the path to
> Unicode but making sure that all of the API calls catch it that way in the
> first place (which should never hurt folks with only ASCII characters in
> their paths).
>
> This page (
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10180765/open-file-with-a-unicode-filename
> ) has details on handling this in Python. If you explicitly pass a Unicode
> strong *in* you will always get Unicode back from the call. Example with
> os.listdir() at bottom.

[I apologize to all the users here that don't care about dev stuff.
We're clearly in
http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_devel territory
now.]

In this case, we're not feeding in a variable, just reading one with
os.getenv().
http://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/repository/entry/chirp/platform.py#L328

It looks like this post addresses our specific problem:
https://measureofchaos.wordpress.com/2011/03/04/python-on-windows-unicode-environment-variables/

Tom KD7LXL