From 85ccfd240c3818f73e1a2064c6010300f00e2241 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Enrico Forestieri <forenr@lyx.org>
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 17:14:09 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] On Windows, properly account for the encoding of the
 temporary directory.

git-svn-id: svn://svn.lyx.org/lyx/lyx-devel/trunk@40858 a592a061-630c-0410-9148-cb99ea01b6c8
---
 lib/configure.py | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/configure.py b/lib/configure.py
index ae987ef63f..f88d51966a 100644
--- a/lib/configure.py
+++ b/lib/configure.py
@@ -109,9 +109,13 @@ def checkTeXPaths():
         from tempfile import mkstemp
         fd, tmpfname = mkstemp(suffix='.ltx')
         if os.name == 'nt':
+            from locale import getdefaultlocale
             from ctypes import windll, create_unicode_buffer
             GetShortPathName = windll.kernel32.GetShortPathNameW
-            longname = unicode(tmpfname)
+            language, encoding = getdefaultlocale()
+            if encoding == None:
+                encoding = 'latin1'
+            longname = unicode(tmpfname, encoding)
             shortlen = GetShortPathName(longname, 0, 0)
             shortname = create_unicode_buffer(shortlen)
             if GetShortPathName(longname, shortname, shortlen):