Compiled app does not work if the path contains unicode characters

• Nuitka version

0.6.3rc4
Python: 3.6.7 (v3.6.7:6ec5cf24b7, Oct 20 2018, 12:45:02) [MSC v.1900 32 bit (Intel)]
Executable: C:\Users\Windows10\Desktop\deploy-dir\3.6.7\Scripts\python.exe
OS: Windows
Arch: x86

• How did you install Nuitka and Python

Via pip on the factory branch.

• SSCCE

from win32com.shell import shell, shellcon

# Simply print out the current username home folder (equivalent to %userprofile%)
path = shell.SHGetFolderPath(0, shellcon.CSIDL_PROFILE, None, 0)
print("path =", path)

Compiled with:

python -m nuitka --standalone --trace-execution --debug test.py

This works fine if the username is latin, but not with such names abc こん ツリー.

I attached ok.log and bad.log to show where is fails; but this is the final error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\abc \u3053\u3093 \u30c4\u30ea\u30fc\Desktop\test.dist\test.py", line 1, in <module>
    from win32com.shell import shell, shellcon
  File "C:\Users\abc \u3053\u3093 \u30c4\u30ea\u30fc\Desktop\test.dist\win32com\__init__.py", line 5, in <module win32com>
ImportError

[kayhayen]

Released as 0.6.3

[kayhayen]

Seems the factory code worked on everything but MinGW64, where host encoded strings were used, and the new code has different name for that on Windows and Linux, which is something I now removed, should be better now.

@Nuitka/nuitka-pushers I plan to make a release 0.6.3 mostly right after I merged this into develop. It’s very crucial issue for compatibility with Windows, esp. to Asia. Lets try and also have the most important fixes in it, but nothing risky anymore. There is always a next release. Interestingly no hotfixes were necessary last time, and I like it that way. 😃