From: Daira Hopwood <daira@jacaranda.org>
Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2015 12:54:36 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Disable use of Unicode-mode FilePaths on non-Windows platorms. fixes ticket:2444
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Disable use of Unicode-mode FilePaths on non-Windows platorms. fixes ticket:2444

Signed-off-by: Daira Hopwood <daira@jacaranda.org>
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diff --git a/src/allmydata/util/encodingutil.py b/src/allmydata/util/encodingutil.py
index ae54afb9..452cdc5b 100644
--- a/src/allmydata/util/encodingutil.py
+++ b/src/allmydata/util/encodingutil.py
@@ -63,7 +63,11 @@ def _reload():
 
     is_unicode_platform = sys.platform in ["win32", "darwin"]
 
-    use_unicode_filepath = sys.platform == "win32" or hasattr(FilePath, '_asTextPath')
+    # Despite the Unicode-mode FilePath support added to Twisted in
+    # <https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/7805>, we can't yet use
+    # Unicode-mode FilePaths with INotify on non-Windows platforms
+    # due to <https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/7928>.
+    use_unicode_filepath = sys.platform == "win32"
 
 _reload()