Quote local paths correctly. refs #2235

[tahoe-lafs/tahoe-lafs.git] / src / allmydata / util / encodingutil.py

diff --git a/src/allmydata/util/encodingutil.py b/src/allmydata/util/encodingutil.py
index 3ceb1a919c7e72dda2d2d820c0b50dd16f8c65a6..feafd8f5c46e6470981c68e14922e1b223af99c2 100644 (file)
--- a/src/allmydata/util/encodingutil.py
+++ b/src/allmydata/util/encodingutil.py
@@ -230,6 +230,16 @@ def quote_output(s, quotemarks=True, quote_newlines=None, encoding=None):
 def quote_path(path, quotemarks=True):
     return quote_output("/".join(map(to_str, path)), quotemarks=quotemarks, quote_newlines=True)
 
+def quote_local_unicode_path(path, quotemarks=True):
+    precondition(isinstance(path, unicode), path)
+
+    if sys.platform == "win32" and path.startswith(u"\\\\?\\"):
+        path = path[4 :]
+        if path.startswith(u"UNC\\"):
+            path = u"\\\\" + path[4 :]
+
+    return quote_output(path, quotemarks=quotemarks, quote_newlines=True)
+
 
 def unicode_platform():
     """