Support unicode commands.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Nephin <dnephin@gmail.com>

2 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/docker/utils/__init__.py b/docker/utils/__init__.py
index 92e03e9..e27700e 100644
--- a/docker/utils/__init__.py
+++ b/docker/utils/__init__.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ from .utils import (
     mkbuildcontext, tar, exclude_paths, parse_repository_tag, parse_host,
     kwargs_from_env, convert_filters, create_host_config,
     create_container_config, parse_bytes, ping_registry, parse_env_file,
-    version_lt, version_gte, decode_json_header
+    version_lt, version_gte, decode_json_header, split_command,
 ) # flake8: noqa
 
 from .types import Ulimit, LogConfig # flake8: noqa
diff --git a/docker/utils/utils.py b/docker/utils/utils.py
index 89837b7..4d2968a 100644
--- a/docker/utils/utils.py
+++ b/docker/utils/utils.py
@@ -673,6 +673,12 @@ def parse_env_file(env_file):
     return environment
 
 
+def split_command(command):
+    if six.PY2:
+        command = command.encode('utf-8')
+    return shlex.split(command)
+
+
 def create_container_config(
     version, image, command, hostname=None, user=None, detach=False,
     stdin_open=False, tty=False, mem_limit=None, ports=None, environment=None,
@@ -682,10 +688,10 @@ def create_container_config(
     labels=None, volume_driver=None
 ):
     if isinstance(command, six.string_types):
-        command = shlex.split(str(command))
+        command = split_command(command)
 
     if isinstance(entrypoint, six.string_types):
-        entrypoint = shlex.split(str(entrypoint))
+        entrypoint = split_command(entrypoint)
 
     if isinstance(environment, dict):
         environment = [