[IPython-dev] Better reporting for non-ascii home dir names

[Stefan van der Walt]

Hi Ville

On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 01:14:02PM +0200, Ville M. Vainio wrote:
> I just added the change
> 
> http://projects.scipy.org/ipython/ipython/changeset/2297
> 
> because it's the second most common cause of ipython crashes, just
> after KeyboardInterrupt.

Why does that crash IPython?  I can't get it to malfunction on my
system, e.g.

In [13]: pickleshare.PickleShareDB('/tmp/Ⴇ თ 탄' + 'Ⴇ თ 탄')
Out[13]: PickleShareDB('/tmp/Ⴇ თ 탄Ⴇ თ 탄')

Do you maybe have a snippet that reproduces this behaviour?

Cheers
Stéfan