Make Windows elevate paths UTF-8 compatible #23
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While using elevate to run a script on a Turkish-localized computer with non-cp1252 characters (e.g. ğ ı ş) in the path, the script throws the following error (code is edited to obfuscate actual working environment and Turkish characters are an example):
In playing with the code in windows.py changing lines 77 and 78 to
will allow the script to run in Windows Command Prompt (cmd.exe). However, it will not run in PowerShell (tried in 5.1 and 7.4.3), because the output path looks like:
C:\Users\####\yağdır\venv\Scripts\python.exe. Not exactly sure how to overcome that issue yet.