ANN: psutil 5.3.0 with full unicode support is out

[eryk sun]

On Sun, Sep 3, 2017 at 9:58 AM, Giampaolo Rodola' <g.rodola at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> - #1040: all strings are encoded by using OS fs encoding.
> - #1040: the following Windows APIs on Python 2 now return a string instead
> of
>   unicode:
>   - Process.memory_maps().path
>   - WindowsService.bin_path()
>   - WindowsService.description()
>   - WindowsService.display_name()
>   - WindowsService.username()

This seems wrong. User names, file paths, registry strings, etc are
all Unicode in Windows. One cannot in general encode them as the
legacy (as in it really should be avoided) 'mbcs' encoding, i.e. ANSI.
Using the 'replace' handler will make a mess with best-fit
replacements and question marks. For example, _winreg in Python 2 has
to return unicode strings and always has, which should be the
precedent for psutil. Python 2 code that supports Windows has to be
able to handle this.