Apparently, Cython by default can only convert `bytes` to C/C++ strings:

```python
_____________________________________________________________________ test_join_autostart ______________________________________________________________________

    @func
    def test_join_autostart():
        zurl = testzurl
        with raises(RuntimeError, match="wcfs: join .*: server not running"):
            wcfs.join(zurl, autostart=False)

        assert wcfs._wcregistry == {}
        def _():
            assert wcfs._wcregistry == {}
        defer(_)

>       wc = wcfs.join(zurl, autostart=True)

wcfs/wcfs_test.py:164:
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
wcfs/__init__.py:225: in join
    wc = WCFS(mntpt, fwcfs, wcsrv)
../../venvs/wendelin.core/lib/python3.9/site-packages/decorator.py:232: in fun
    return caller(func, *(extras + args), **kw)
../pygolang/golang/__init__.py:125: in _
    return f(*argv, **kw)
wcfs/__init__.py:167: in __init__
    wc.mountpoint = mountpoint
wcfs/client/_wcfs.pyx:44: in wendelin.wcfs.client._wcfs.PyWCFS.mountpoint.__set__
    def __set__(PyWCFS pywc, string v):
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

>   ???
E   TypeError: expected bytes, str found
```

We use the directives `# cython: c_string_type=str` and
`# cython: c_string_encoding=utf8` where necessary to make it accept
Python 3 `str`.