It seems like using os.getcwdu() here is wrong both for Python 2 and Python 3.
For Python 2, this returns a 'unicode' object, which tries to get concatenated
to a 'str' object in substitute_prompt. The implicit conversion works when the
unicode string contains no accent. When it does contain an accent though,
displaying the prompt results in the following error:
(gdb) set extended-prompt \w
...
File "/home/simark/build/binutils-gdb-python2/gdb/data-directory/python/gdb/prompt.py", line 138, in substitute_prompt
result += str(cmd(arg))
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 49: ordinal not in range(128)
When using os.getcwd() instead, it works correctly. I suppose that Python does
the necessary decoding internally.
For Python 3, this method simply does not exist. It works fine with os.getcwd().
gdb/ChangeLog:
* python/lib/gdb/prompt.py (_prompt_pwd): Use os.getcwd() instead of
os.getcwdu().
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