7258: transcode os.path.join args from the fs enc to prevent a crash

gramps/gen/recentfiles.py

@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ class RecentFiles(object):
         """
         Saves the current GRAMPS RecentFiles collection to the associated file.
         """
-        with open(os.path.expanduser(GRAMPS_FILENAME), 'w') as xml_file:
+        with open(os.path.expanduser(GRAMPS_FILENAME), 'w', encoding='utf8') as xml_file:
             if use_lock:
                 fcntl.lockf(xml_file,fcntl.LOCK_EX)
             xml_file.write("<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\"?>\n")
@@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ class RecentParser(object):
         try:
             # Python3's expat wants bytes, Python2's wants a string.
             fmode = "r" if sys.version_info[0] < 3 else "rb"
-            with open(fname, fmode) as xml_file:
+            with io.open(fname, fmode) as xml_file:
                 if use_lock:
                     fcntl.lockf(xml_file,fcntl.LOCK_SH)
 

gramps/gui/aboutdialog.py

@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ from __future__ import unicode_literals
 
 import os
 import sys
+import io
 
 ##import logging
 ##_LOG = logging.getLogger(".GrampsAboutDialog")
@@ -229,7 +230,7 @@ def _get_authors():
         parser = make_parser()
         parser.setContentHandler(AuthorParser(authors, contributors))
         
-        authors_file = open(AUTHORS_FILE)
+        authors_file = io.open(AUTHORS_FILE, encoding="utf-8")
         parser.parse(authors_file)
         authors_file.close()
         

setup.py

@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ def merge(in_file, out_file, option, po_dir='po', cache=True):
 
     if (not os.path.exists(out_file) and os.path.exists(in_file)):
         if sys.platform == 'win32':
-            cmd = (('set LC_ALL=C && intltool-merge %(opt)s %(po_dir)s %(in_file)s '
+            cmd = (('set LC_ALL=C && perl -S intltool-merge %(opt)s %(po_dir)s %(in_file)s '
                 '%(out_file)s') % 
               {'opt' : option, 
                'po_dir' : po_dir,