def win32_utf8_argv():
    """Uses shell32.GetCommandLineArgvW to get sys.argv as a list of UTF-8
    strings.

    Versions 2.5 and older of Python don't support Unicode in sys.argv on
    Windows, with the underlying Windows API instead replacing multi-byte
    characters with '?'.

    Returns None on failure.

    Example usage:

    >>> def main(argv=None):
    ...    if argv is None:
    ...        argv = win32_utf8_argv() or sys.argv
    ...
    """

    try:
        from ctypes import POINTER, byref, cdll, c_int, windll
        from ctypes.wintypes import LPCWSTR, LPWSTR

        GetCommandLineW = cdll.kernel32.GetCommandLineW
        GetCommandLineW.argtypes = []
        GetCommandLineW.restype = LPCWSTR

        CommandLineToArgvW = windll.shell32.CommandLineToArgvW
        CommandLineToArgvW.argtypes = [LPCWSTR, POINTER(c_int)]
        CommandLineToArgvW.restype = POINTER(LPWSTR)

        cmd = GetCommandLineW()
        argc = c_int(0)
        argv = CommandLineToArgvW(cmd, byref(argc))
        if argc.value > 0:
            # Remove Python executable if present
            if argc.value - len(sys.argv) == 1:
                start = 1
            else:
                start = 0
            return [argv[i].encode('utf-8') for i in
                    range(start, argc.value)]
    except Exception:
        pass
Uses shell32.GetCommandLineArgvW to get sys.argv as a list of UTF-8
    strings.

    Versions 2.5 and older of Python don't support Unicode in sys.argv on
    Windows, with the underlying Windows API instead replacing multi-byte
    characters with '?'.

    Returns None on failure.

    Example usage:

    >>> def main(argv=None):
    ...    if argv is None:
    ...        argv = win32_utf8_argv() or sys.argv
    ...