properly handle unicode characters in home dirs

jupyter · Jan 23, 2019 · 47c4102 · 47c4102
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commit 47c4102
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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 ipython_genutils import py3compat
 
 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)
+    home = py3compat.str_to_unicode(os.path.expanduser('~'), encoding=sys.getfilesystemencoding()) 
     return homedir
 
 _dtemps = {}