From 9d8d14b5bd5c309c8193cba2a20ebe668ff1f23d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Vierra <codewarrior@hawaii.rr.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 14:52:42 -1000
Subject: [PATCH] Get the save directory path in unicode on win32 systems

---
 mclevel.py | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mclevel.py b/mclevel.py
index f0d4725..1f62a42 100644
--- a/mclevel.py
+++ b/mclevel.py
@@ -141,12 +141,36 @@ FaceZIncreasing = 4
 FaceZDecreasing = 5
 MaxDirections = 6
 
+#as it turns out, you can't pass unicode strings to path.expandxxx because it 
+#returns the expanded path as a byte array encoded for the filesystem routines, 
+# but unicode string formatters and whatnot try to decode it as 'ascii'
+
+# this basically means you can't print them without knowing the filesystem encoding
+
+
 saveFileDirs = {
-    'win32':os.path.expandvars("%APPDATA%\\.minecraft\\saves"),
+    #'win32':os.path.expandvars("%APPDATA%\\.minecraft\\saves"),
     'darwin':os.path.expanduser("~/Library/Application Support/minecraft/saves"),
 }
 saveFileDir = saveFileDirs.get(sys.platform, os.path.expanduser("~/.minecraft/saves")); #default to Linux save location 
-  
+
+if sys.platform == "win32":
+    #do it using win32com because expandvars always returns a byte array when we 
+    #need a unicode for the filesystem routines
+            
+    import win32com.client
+    
+    objShell = win32com.client.Dispatch("WScript.Shell")
+    saveFileDir = os.path.join(objShell.SpecialFolders("AppData"), u".minecraft", u"saves")
+    
+ 
+#if sys.platform == "win32":
+#    from win32com.shell import shell, shellcon
+#    saveFileDir = shell.SHGetPathFromIDListEx (
+#    shell.SHGetSpecialFolderLocation (0, shellcon.CSIDL_APPDATA)
+#    )
+#    
+    
 """
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