From 7fbd06945e28257119e450d76b95f69f3497a614 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?V=C3=ADt=20Tu=C4=8Dek?= <vit-tucek@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2018 17:57:37 +0200
Subject: [PATCH]  properly handle unicode characters in home dirs

---
 jupyter_core/paths.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/jupyter_core/paths.py b/jupyter_core/paths.py
index ad46e001..cd28f96a 100644
--- 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 = {}