"env" parameter to "popen" won't accept Unicode on Windows - minor Unicode bug

[Bjoern Schliessmann]

John Nagle wrote:

> It turns out that the strings in the "env" parameter have to be
> ASCII, not Unicode, even though Windows fully supports Unicode in
> CreateProcess.

Are you sure it supports Unicode, not UTF8 or UTF16? Probably using
something like u"thestring".encode("utf16") will help.

Regards,


Björn

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