[PyQt] Unicode errors with PyQt5?

[Jones, Bryan]

All,

It seems that PyQt5 doesn't handle Unicode library paths correctly. (Of
course, this could be an underlying Qt5 problem). Any advice/pointers?

(venv) F:\tmp\中文路径>python
Python 3.6.1 (v3.6.1:69c0db5, Mar 21 2017, 18:41:36) [MSC v.1900 64 bit
(AMD64)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from PyQt5.QtCore import QLibraryInfo
>>> QLibraryInfo.location(QLibraryInfo.LibrariesPath)
'F:/tmp/????/venv/lib/site-packages/PyQt5/Qt/lib'
>>> import sys
>>> sys.path
['', 'F:\\tmp\\中文路径\\venv\\Scripts\\python36.zip',
'F:\\Downloads\\Python36-64\\DLLs', 'F:\\Downloads\\Python36-64\\lib',
'F:\\Downloads\\Python36-64', 'F:\\tmp\\中文路径\\venv',
'F:\\tmp\\中文路径\\venv\\lib\\site-packages']
>>> from PyQt5.QtCore import QT_VERSION_STR, PYQT_VERSION_STR
>>> print(QT_VERSION_STR, PYQT_VERSION_STR)
5.11.1 5.11.2

(Credit goes to DionSun, reported at
https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/issues/3696)

Bryan
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