enso doesn't work if username contains non-latin chars

[Artem Tartakynov]

Enso doesn't works if username contains non-latin characters (in localized versions of Windows).
It seems that issue in /enso/platform/win32/system/Folders.py
The patch is attached

[blackdaemon (blackdaemon)]

Hi Artem, thanks for posting this. Please could you also attach the log or paste the traceback? I would like to see where exactly this fails. Thanks

[blackdaemon (blackdaemon)]

I am not able to reproduce this on Windows XP CZ.
What version of pywin32 do you have?
Please post the traceback.

[Artem Tartakynov (artem-tad)]

Windows 7, Russian
pywin32 215

enso runs but does not load commands (obviously from C:\Users\<UserName>\AppData\Local\Enso\commands).
soon i'll try to provide logs and traceback, too busy now...

[blackdaemon (blackdaemon)]

OK Iwas able to reproduce this on Windows 7 Czech.

This is major problem in standard Python os.path.expanduser() which uses 'environ' dict to get to the USERPROFILE variable.
'environ' dict contains non-unicode strings in mixed encodings and using getdefaultfileencoding() is not guaranteed to work in all
Windows national versions.

I work on general fix that will not use environment variable on Windows platform.