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TASK DESCRIPTION
Unicode directory names cause problems whether invoked via pwb.py or directly.
```
C:\pywikibot\Häuser-core>python pwb.py shell
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "pwb.py", line 117, in <module>
os.path.join(rewrite_path, 'pywikibot', 'compat'),
File "C:\Python279\lib\ntpath.py", line 84, in join
result_path = result_path + p_path
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe4 in position 12:
ordinal not in range(128)
```
```
C:\pywikibot\Häuser-core>set PYTHONPATH=.
C:\pywikibot\Häuser-core>python scripts\shell.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "scripts\shell.py", line 44, in <module>
main(*args)
File "scripts\shell.py", line 30, in main
import pywikibot
File "C:\pywikibot\Hõuser-core\pywikibot\__init__.py", line 32, in <module>
from pywikibot import config2 as config
File "C:\pywikibot\Hõuser-core\pywikibot\config2.py", line 307, in <module>
register_families_folder(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__),
'families')
)
File "C:\Python279\lib\ntpath.py", line 84, in join
result_path = result_path + p_path
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe4 in position 12:
ordinal not in range(128)
```
Even if we can solve those, we then have the problem of paths in the
environment:
The solution doesnt look good
https://measureofchaos.wordpress.com/2011/03/04/python-on-windows-unicode-environment-variables/
TASK DETAIL
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T96127
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