properly handle unicode characters in home dirs

jupyter · Jun 6, 2018 · 7fbd069 · 7fbd069
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diff --git a/jupyter_core/paths.py b/jupyter_core/paths.py
@@ -21,7 +21,8 @@ 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)
+    if sys.version_info.major == 2:
+       homedir = homedir.decode(sys.getfilesystemencoding())
     return homedir
 
 _dtemps = {}