Re: [cx-oracle-users] Using cx_Oracle 6.0rc1 on Windows

[Walter D. <wa...@li...>]

On 5 Jul 2017, at 16:21, Anthony Tuininga wrote:

>> [...]
>> "%1 ist keine zulõssige Win32-Anwendung" (which should read "%1 ist 
>> keine
>> zulässige Win32-Anwendung", i.e. the "ö" should be an "ä") means 
>> "%1 is not
>> an acceptable win32 application".
>>
>> So we don't see the real problem because cx_Oracle fails to create 
>> the
>> proper Unicode string from the OS error message.
>>
>> It's not clear what encoding this is (probable latin-1 or cp1252, but
>> definitely *not* UTF-8). A
>>
>>    grep 'xe4.*LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS' Lib/encodings/*.py
>>
>> in the Python source code returns 40 encodings that map the byte 0xE4 
>> to ä.
>>
>> If the correct encoding can't be determined from the environment it 
>> might
>> be best to use a less strict error handling (like e.g. 
>> backslashreplace)
>> when decoding the bytes of the error message.
>>
>
> Thanks, Walter. This is very helpful. We'll have to see what makes the 
> most
> sense in this case. Do you see information in the event log regarding 
> this
> error?

Where can we find this event log?

> [...]

Servus,
    Walter