From 63fbd76548f0decb7fe2fc171bf083a21fa3e643 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Campbell Barton <ideasman42@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 10:41:16 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] [#20021] Non-ASCII characters on blender 2.5 alpha 0 could
 not redo the bug on my system, fix suggested by Yomgui on blendercoders.

---
 source/blender/python/intern/bpy_interface.c | 16 +++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/source/blender/python/intern/bpy_interface.c b/source/blender/python/intern/bpy_interface.c
index 9a14717b060..d4d0cbf602f 100644
--- a/source/blender/python/intern/bpy_interface.c
+++ b/source/blender/python/intern/bpy_interface.c
@@ -313,11 +313,25 @@ void BPY_start_python( int argc, char **argv )
 	/* sigh, why do python guys not have a char** version anymore? :( */
 	{
 		int i;
+#if 0
 		PyObject *py_argv= PyList_New(argc);
-
 		for (i=0; i<argc; i++)
 			PyList_SET_ITEM(py_argv, i, PyUnicode_FromString(argv[i]));
 
+#else	// should fix bug #20021 - utf path name problems
+		PyObject *py_argv= PyList_New(0);
+		for (i=0; i<argc; i++) {
+			PyObject *item= PyUnicode_Decode(argv[i], strlen(argv[i]), Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding, NULL);
+			if(item==NULL) { // should never happen
+				PyErr_Print();
+				PyErr_Clear();
+			}
+			else {
+				PyList_Append(py_argv, item);
+				Py_DECREF(item);
+			}
+		}
+#endif
 		PySys_SetObject("argv", py_argv);
 		Py_DECREF(py_argv);
 	}