diff --git a/src/uucore/Cargo.toml b/src/uucore/Cargo.toml
index 66bed3510..611be8af9 100644
--- a/src/uucore/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/uucore/Cargo.toml
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ travis-ci = { repository = "uutils/uucore" }
 appveyor = { repository = "uutils/uucore" }
 
 [dependencies]
+dunce = "1.0.0"
 getopts = "0.2.18"
 failure = { version = "0.1.1", optional = true }
 failure_derive = { version = "0.1.1", optional = true }
@@ -43,4 +44,3 @@ entries = ["libc"]
 zero-copy = ["nix", "libc", "lazy_static", "platform-info"]
 wide = []
 default = []
-
diff --git a/src/uucore/src/fs.rs b/src/uucore/src/fs.rs
index 65819afcc..39d4b1f5a 100644
--- a/src/uucore/src/fs.rs
+++ b/src/uucore/src/fs.rs
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@
 // For the full copyright and license information, please view the LICENSE
 // file that was distributed with this source code.
 
+#[cfg(windows)]
+extern crate dunce;
 #[cfg(target_os = "redox")]
 extern crate termion;
 
@@ -101,7 +103,7 @@ pub fn canonicalize<P: AsRef<Path>>(original: P, can_mode: CanonicalizeMode) ->
     let original = if original.is_absolute() {
         original.to_path_buf()
     } else {
-        env::current_dir().unwrap().join(original)
+        dunce::canonicalize(env::current_dir().unwrap()).unwrap().join(original)
     };
 
     let mut result = PathBuf::new();