Merge branch 'fix-788' into develop

powerline/lib/unicode.py

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+# vim:fileencoding=utf-8:noet
+
+try:
+	from __builtin__ import unicode
+except ImportError:
+	unicode = str  # NOQA
+
+
+def u(s):
+	if type(s) is unicode:
+		return s
+	else:
+		return unicode(s, 'utf-8')

powerline/segments/common.py

@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ from powerline.lib.vcs import guess, tree_status
 from powerline.lib.threaded import ThreadedSegment, KwThreadedSegment, with_docstring
 from powerline.lib.monotonic import monotonic
 from powerline.lib.humanize_bytes import humanize_bytes
+from powerline.lib.unicode import u
 from powerline.theme import requires_segment_info
 from collections import namedtuple
 
@@ -91,7 +92,7 @@ def cwd(pl, segment_info, dir_shorten_len=None, dir_limit_depth=None, use_path_s
 	Highlight groups used: ``cwd:current_folder`` or ``cwd``. It is recommended to define all highlight groups.
 	'''
 	try:
-		cwd = segment_info['getcwd']()
+		cwd = u(segment_info['getcwd']())
 	except OSError as e:
 		if e.errno == 2:
 			# user most probably deleted the directory
@@ -100,7 +101,7 @@ def cwd(pl, segment_info, dir_shorten_len=None, dir_limit_depth=None, use_path_s
 			cwd = "[not found]"
 		else:
 			raise
-	home = segment_info['home']
+	home = u(segment_info['home'])
 	if home:
 		cwd = re.sub('^' + re.escape(home), '~', cwd, 1)
 	cwd_split = cwd.split(os.sep)

powerline/theme.py

@@ -1,19 +1,7 @@
 # vim:fileencoding=utf-8:noet
 
-from .segment import gen_segment_getter
-
-
-try:
-	from __builtin__ import unicode
-except ImportError:
-	unicode = str  # NOQA
-
-
-def u(s):
-	if type(s) is unicode:
-		return s
-	else:
-		return unicode(s, 'utf-8')
+from powerline.segment import gen_segment_getter
+from powerline.lib.unicode import u, unicode
 
 
 def requires_segment_info(func):