[tahoe-lafs-trac-stream] [tahoe-lafs] #1674: abspath_expanduser_unicode fails on Windows if username or home directory contains non-ASCII characters

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#1674: abspath_expanduser_unicode fails on Windows if username or home directory
contains non-ASCII characters
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     Reporter:  vikarti  |      Owner:  davidsarah
         Type:  defect   |     Status:  assigned
     Priority:  major    |  Milestone:  1.10.0
    Component:  code     |    Version:  1.9.1
   Resolution:           |   Keywords:  windows unicode
Launchpad Bug:           |
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Comment (by davidsarah):

 {{{os.path.expanduser}}} appears to be hopelessly buggy when the username
 is non-ASCII (it returns the wrong answer even when it doesn't fail). We
 were already working around two bugs in the path functions
 (http://bugs.python.org/issue1669539 and
 http://bugs.python.org/issue5827), so it might be simpler just to write
 our own implementation of {{{expanduser}}} from scratch.

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