From dbcda9a0d8fe5d10931187e1a2c9a4f246ce85d7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2010 08:55:28 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Fix #5983 (Problem with localized versions with non-ascii
 characters in default paths)

---
 src/calibre/library/database2.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/calibre/library/database2.py b/src/calibre/library/database2.py
index a08e06378c..9f9488a052 100644
--- a/src/calibre/library/database2.py
+++ b/src/calibre/library/database2.py
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ class LibraryDatabase2(LibraryDatabase, SchemaUpgrade, CustomColumns):
         self.dbpath = os.path.join(library_path, 'metadata.db')
         self.dbpath = os.environ.get('CALIBRE_OVERRIDE_DATABASE_PATH',
                 self.dbpath)
-        if isinstance(self.dbpath, unicode):
+        if isinstance(self.dbpath, unicode) and not iswindows:
             self.dbpath = self.dbpath.encode(filesystem_encoding)
 
         self.connect()