From 480009a829f245d80e638a243782655ac11b0624 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Erik Johnson <palehose@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2018 08:43:12 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Pass unicode path to reg.set_value

---
 salt/modules/win_path.py | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/salt/modules/win_path.py b/salt/modules/win_path.py
index da472a195d..613ec3d78d 100644
--- a/salt/modules/win_path.py
+++ b/salt/modules/win_path.py
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ import os
 import re
 
 # Import Salt libs
+import salt.utils.data
 import salt.utils.platform
 import salt.utils.stringutils
 
@@ -157,7 +158,7 @@ def add(path, index=0):
         'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE',
         'SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Control\\Session Manager\\Environment',
         'PATH',
-        str(';').join(sysPath),  # future lint: disable=blacklisted-function
+        ';'.join(salt.utils.data.decode(sysPath)),
         'REG_EXPAND_SZ'
     )
 
@@ -205,7 +206,7 @@ def remove(path):
         'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE',
         'SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Control\\Session Manager\\Environment',
         'PATH',
-        str(';').join(sysPath),  # future lint: disable=blacklisted-function
+        ';'.join(salt.utils.data.decode(sysPath)),
         'REG_EXPAND_SZ'
     )
     if regedit: