[RFC] decoding environment variables to unicode?

[Ian Clatworthy]

Alexander Belchenko wrote:

> What the best way to handle this case:
> 
> 1) convert location of config dir to unicode in config_dir() function?
> But how to handle non-windows platforms? Is it OK to use _ensure_unicode
> for them?
> 
> 2) convert location of config dir to unicode only in show_version()
> function? Is it OK to use win32utils._ensure_unicode on non-win32
> platforms? (in this case I need to move this function to osutils, IMO).
> 
> 3) ignore this case until bug report from real users will be filed?
> 
> 
> I think that variant 1 is wrong and vulnerable on non-win32 platforms.
> And variant 3 here only because I think it's very very very rare case.

I think you answered your question. :-) I'd go with option 2 putting a
generally reusable routine in osutils.

Ian C.