[New-bugs-announce] [issue19264] subprocess.Popen doesn't support unicode on Windows

[Peter Graham]

New submission from Peter Graham:

On Windows, subprocess.Popen requires the executable name and working directory to be ascii.  This is because it calls CreateProcess instead of CreateProcessW.

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components: Library (Lib), Unicode, Windows
messages: 199976
nosy: ezio.melotti, peter0
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: subprocess.Popen doesn't support unicode on Windows
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.7

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