diff --git a/couchpotato/core/helpers/path.py b/couchpotato/core/helpers/path.py
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+import os
+from chardet import detect
+from couchpotato import Env
+
+fs_enc = Env.get('fs_encoding')
+
+
+def list_dir(path, full_path = True):
+    """
+    List directory don't error when it doesn't exist
+    """
+
+    path = unicode_path(path)
+
+    if os.path.isdir(path):
+        for f in os.listdir(path):
+            if full_path:
+                yield join(path, f)
+            else:
+                yield f
+
+
+def join(*args):
+    """
+    Join path, encode properly before joining
+    """
+
+    return os.path.join(*[safe(x) for x in args])
+
+
+def unicode_path(path):
+    """
+    Convert back to unicode
+    :param path: path string
+    """
+
+    if isinstance(path, str):
+        detected = detect(path)
+        print detected
+        path = path.decode(detected.get('encoding'))
+        path = path.decode('unicode_escape')
+
+    return path
+
+
+def safe(path):
+
+    if isinstance(path, unicode):
+        return path.encode('unicode_escape')
+
+    return path