From 7fe954f943d52292938421aa3c77789b2c64a4d3 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 17:38:29 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] properly handle unicode characters in home dirs

---
 notebook/notebookapp.py | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/notebook/notebookapp.py b/notebook/notebookapp.py
index e1db9d879ef..c2066e40af0 100755
--- a/notebook/notebookapp.py
+++ b/notebook/notebookapp.py
@@ -213,6 +213,8 @@ def init_settings(self, jupyter_app, kernel_manager, contents_manager,
         
         root_dir = contents_manager.root_dir
         home = os.path.expanduser('~')
+        if sys.version_info.major == 2:
+            home = home.decode(sys.getfilesystemencoding())
         if root_dir.startswith(home + os.path.sep):
             # collapse $HOME to ~
             root_dir = '~' + root_dir[len(home):]