Not compatible with a directory having emojis in its path

[yadavankit]

Am getting this Traceback when running virtualenv venv to create a virtualenv in a directory having emojis etc in its path -
New python executable in /Users/WARL0CK/✮✮Python✮✮/evalai/venv/bin/python2.7 Also creating executable in /Users/WARL0CK/✮✮Python✮✮/evalai/venv/bin/python Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 1, in <module> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 15: ordinal not in range(128) ERROR: The executable /Users/WARL0CK/✮✮Python✮✮/evalai/venv/bin/python2.7 is not functioning ERROR: It thinks sys.prefix is u'/Users/WARL0CK/\u272e\u272ePython\u272e\u272e/evalai' (should be u'/Users/WARL0CK/\u272e\u272ePython\u272e\u272e/evalai/venv') ERROR: virtualenv is not compatible with this system or executable

[yadavankit]

Extra Info : Am running this on MacOS Sierra

[yan12125]

I guess my patch at #900 can fix this

[pfmoore]

... which as noted in that PR, is stalled on being refactored out into separate PRs.

I'm not completely convinced that #900 is related, but it might be worth a try. Although honestly, I'd be more inclined to suggest renaming the directory to not include emojis in the name - Python 2's Unicode support isn't something I'd like to trust with that type of stress... 😉

[melyux]

Any hope of fixing this?

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[melyux]

Still no good.

[JDLH]

According to a comment on #53 (comment), it appears this bug is fixed by pip 10.0.0, released 2018-04-14. @melikyuksel , did you test this issue using pip 10.0.0?

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[stemid]

This is not just about emojis, also about internationalization support. Gnome by default creates directories with Swedish names on a Swedish locale. So for example the Downloads dir is called Hämtningar.

I just encountered this issue trying to create a virtualenv in the directory Hämtningar.

There is a proposed PR further up in comments, I haven't looked at it but you'd think that by 2019 Python should be able to handle this.

The workaround is of course simple, just avoid using the directory for now.

[gaborbernat]

Will address this part of #697

[gaborbernat]

Duplicate of #457