properly handle unicode characters in home dirs

jupyter · Jun 6, 2018 · 7bfb04c · 7bfb04c
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commit 7bfb04c
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diff --git a/jupyter_core/paths.py b/jupyter_core/paths.py
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 import os
 import sys
 import tempfile
+from builtins import str
 
 pjoin = os.path.join
 
@@ -21,7 +22,7 @@ def get_home_dir():
     homedir = os.path.expanduser('~')
     # 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 = str(os.path.realpath(homedir), sys.getfilesystemencoding())
     return homedir
 
 _dtemps = {}