[Python] How do I read an image from a path with Unicode characters?

I have the following code and it fails, because it cannot read the file from disk. The image is always None.

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import cv2
import numpy

bgrImage = cv2.imread(u'D:\\ö\\handschuh.jpg')


Note: my file is already saved as UTF-8 with BOM. I verified with Notepad++.

In Process Monitor, I see that Python is acccessing the file from a wrong path:



I have read about:

• Open file with unicode filename, which is about the open() function and not related to OpenCV.
• How do I read an image file using Python, but that's unrelated to Unicode issues.

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