From caf65170c3cd38c4013b80f012c3cc9838a6e41a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gremious Grenald <gremious@gremy.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2023 21:10:12 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Use bytestring for wallpaper path on Windows

---
 pywal/wallpaper.py | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/pywal/wallpaper.py b/pywal/wallpaper.py
index 09469f4..16996be 100644
--- a/pywal/wallpaper.py
+++ b/pywal/wallpaper.py
@@ -175,7 +175,10 @@ def set_win_wallpaper(img):
     if "x86" in os.environ["PROGRAMFILES"]:
         ctypes.windll.user32.SystemParametersInfoW(20, 0, img, 3)
     else:
-        ctypes.windll.user32.SystemParametersInfoA(20, 0, img, 3)
+        # 'W' funcitons take  uniqcode strings,
+        # while 'A' functions take UTF-8 bytestrings.
+        # (Python 3 strings are Unicode by default.)
+        ctypes.windll.user32.SystemParametersInfoA(20, 0, str.encode(img), 3)
 
 
 def change(img):