Merge "arguments are not locale decoded into Unicode"

openstackclient/shell.py

@@ -18,7 +18,9 @@
 
 import argparse
 import getpass
+import locale
 import logging
+import six
 import sys
 import traceback
 
@@ -474,8 +476,17 @@ class OpenStackShell(app.App):
             tcmd.run(targs)
 
 
-def main(argv=sys.argv[1:]):
+def main(argv=None):
+    if argv is None:
+        argv = sys.argv[1:]
+        if six.PY2:
+            # Emulate Py3, decode argv into Unicode based on locale so that
+            # commands always see arguments as text instead of binary data
+            encoding = locale.getpreferredencoding()
+            if encoding:
+                argv = map(lambda arg: arg.decode(encoding), argv)
+
     return OpenStackShell().run(argv)
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
-    sys.exit(main(sys.argv[1:]))
+    sys.exit(main())