From 86171e5f60526df76c208118e243fdab251713ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:43:23 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] ANother fix for #759

---
 src/calibre/__init__.py | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/calibre/__init__.py b/src/calibre/__init__.py
index c338404483..674302bf6d 100644
--- a/src/calibre/__init__.py
+++ b/src/calibre/__init__.py
@@ -55,6 +55,23 @@ def my_abspath(path, encoding=sys.getfilesystemencoding()):
     return res
 
 os.path.abspath = my_abspath
+_join = os.path.join
+def my_join(a, *p):
+    encoding=sys.getfilesystemencoding()
+    p = [a] + list(p)
+    _unicode = False
+    for i in p:
+        if isinstance(i, unicode):
+            _unicode = True
+            break
+    p = [i.encode(encoding) if isinstance(i, unicode) else i for i in p]
+    
+    res = _join(*p)
+    if _unicode:
+        res = res.decode(encoding)
+    return res
+
+os.path.join = my_join        
 
 def osx_version():
     if isosx: