Re: [cx-oracle-users] Problem with cx_Oracle 5.0.4 and Unicode support for Oracle 10g

[Anthony T. <ant...@gm...>]

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Amaury Forgeot d'Arc
<ama...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 2010/9/22 Anthony Tuininga <ant...@gm...>:
>> Based on other bugs that I have seen and some
>> other comments made on and off the list I am thinking that Unicode
>> mode is not worth the trouble and I am thinking of ripping it out
>> completely
>
> Isn't the Unicode mode mandatory for python 3.x?

Yes, indeed at the moment. I am considering simply forcing the
encoding of the unicode objects to the encoding expected by the
setting of NLS_LANG -- that should work well enough and avoid the code
path that doesn't seem to work well on certain platforms. I believe
that bindnames() also segfaults in unicode mode. There was another
problem but that one was resolved in the latest patchset for 11.2.

Anthony