[docs] [issue20140] UnicodeDecodeError in ntpath.py when home dir contains non-ascii signs

[Eryk Sun]

Eryk Sun added the comment:

> It might be worth testing a patch that changes expanduser to 
> decode the environment variables 

If expanduser() is passed a unicode path, it can use _winreg.ExpandEvironmentStrings(u'%USERPROFILE%') instead of decoding os.environ['USERPROFILE']. In 2.7, os.environ is a lossy ANSI encoding of the native Unicode environment block.

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