7519: GRAMPs unable to handle ... Path with accented characters

This replaces commit 8cbb3ef014 with
removing the incorrect encoding of paths with the system filesystem
encoding. Python is mostly smart enough to do that itself.

Thanks to Paul Franklin and Josip Pisoj for their help with sorting this
out.

gramps/cli/clidbman.py

@@ -480,8 +480,6 @@ def find_next_db_dir():
     while True:
         base = "%x" % int(time.time())
         dbdir = os.path.expanduser(config.get('behavior.database-path'))
-        if sys.version_info[0] < 3:
-            dbdir = dbdir.encode(glocale.getfilesystemencoding())
         new_path = os.path.join(dbdir, base)
         if not os.path.isdir(new_path):
             break

gramps/gen/plug/docgen/graphdoc.py

@@ -936,10 +936,6 @@ class GVPdfGvDoc(GVDocBase):
             dotfile = os.fdopen(handle, "wb")
         dotfile.write(self._dot.getvalue())
         dotfile.close()
-        # Convert filename to str using file system encoding.
-        if sys.version_info[0] < 3:
-            fname = self._filename.encode(glocale.getfilesystemencoding())
-        else:
         fname = self._filename
 
         # Generate the PDF file.

gramps/gen/utils/configmanager.py

@@ -50,11 +50,7 @@ _ = glocale.translation.gettext
 
 def safe_eval(exp):
     # restrict eval to empty environment
-    try:
     return eval(exp, {})
-    except SyntaxError:
-        logging.warning ("Invalid command string: %s", exp)
-        return exp
 
 ##try:
 ##    from ast import literal_eval as safe_eval
@@ -372,16 +368,8 @@ class ConfigManager(object):
                             default = ""
                         if isinstance(value, int):
                             value = int(value)
-                        # repr() in Py2 effectively runs "encode(val,
-                        # ascii, backslashreplace)" on its argument,
-                        # and there's no way to reconstruct the
-                        # string, so we special-case handling writing
-                        # to ensure the unicode is preserved.
-                        if isinstance(value, str) or isinstance(value, unicode):
-                            key_file.write(("%s%s=u'%s'\n") % (default, key,
-                                                            value))
-                        else:
-                            key_file.write(("%s%s=%s\n")% (default, key,
+                        key_file.write(("%s%s=%s\n")% (default, 
+                                                       key, 
                                                        repr(value)))
                 key_file.write("\n")
             key_file.close()

gramps/gui/viewmanager.py

@@ -1100,8 +1100,6 @@ class ViewManager(CLIManager):
         value = dialog.run()
         if value:
             (filename, title) = value
-            if sys.version_info[0] < 3:
-                filename = filename.encode(glocale.getfilesystemencoding())
             self.db_loader.read_file(filename)
             self._post_load_newdb(filename, 'x-directory/normal', title)