From 5e4fcf0ed5bd966583e353d4ed944af85cae3e37 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ivan Kravets <me@ikravets.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2016 18:31:22 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Check user profile for ASCII

---
 platformio/util.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/platformio/util.py b/platformio/util.py
index 5bbefaa8..a91365c5 100644
--- a/platformio/util.py
+++ b/platformio/util.py
@@ -164,10 +164,11 @@ def get_home_dir():
 
     if not isdir(home_dir):
         try:
+            home_dir.encode("utf8")  # test ASCII
             os.makedirs(home_dir)
             f = TemporaryFile(dir=home_dir)
             f.close()
-        except (OSError, WindowsError):
+        except (AssertionError, OSError, WindowsError):
             if "windows" in get_systype():
                 home_dir = splitdrive(home_dir)[0] + "\.platformio"
                 if not isdir(home_dir):