ipython/ipython — pull request #3466 by punchagan (2013-06-25 15:54:01+00:00)
Title: Kernel fails to start when username has non-ascii characters

This commit fixes it by trying to convert the string to unicode just like it is done [here](https://github.com/ipython/ipython/blob/master/IPython/core/prompts.py#L147)