UnicodeDecodeError when I try to import matplotlib from directory with non-ascii name

[macie]

In linux:

user@machine:~$ cd ściółka
user@machine:~/ściółka$ python
Python 2.7.8 (default, Sep 24 2014, 18:26:21) 
>>> import matplotlib
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/home/user/.virtualenvs/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/__init__.py", line 1048, in <module>
    rcParams = rc_params()
  File "/home/user/.virtualenvs/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/__init__.py", line 897, in rc_params
    fname = matplotlib_fname()
  File "/home/user/.virtualenvs/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/__init__.py", line 748, in matplotlib_fname
    fname = os.path.join(os.getcwd(), 'matplotlibrc')
  File "/home/user/.virtualenvs/env/lib/python2.7/posixpath.py", line 80, in join
    path += '/' + b
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc5 in position 36: ordinal not in range(128)
>>>

I don't know what is better to use to decoding path: sys.getfilesystemencoding() or locale.getdefaultlocale()[1]?

[tacaswell]

What version of mpl is this with?

Can you try with the 1.4.x branch? There have been a number of bugs fixed related to unicode paths recently.

[macie]

matplotlib installed today with pip:

$ pip freeze
...
matplotlib==1.4.0
...

[macie]

After quick research I found commit which resolves the problem: 0a41d83

@tacaswell Thanks for quick response.