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

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

On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 10:19 AM, Walter Dörwald <wa...@li...>
wrote:

> 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?


Search for "Event Viewer". Its a long shot but sometimes errors are
displayed there as well, and sometimes they even are useful! :-)

>
>
> [...]
>>
>
> Servus,
>    Walter
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