Re: [cx-oracle-users] Antw: Bad conversion of a unicode value?

[Michael S. <ms...@co...>]

Michael Schlenker schrieb:
> matilda matilda schrieb:
>>>>> Michael Schlenker <ms...@co...> 28.11.2007 12:13 >>>
>>> So i think cx_Oracle somehow mistakenly converts to database encoding=
 somewhere in between.
>> Hi Michael,
>>
>> I'm not sure if this is a problem of cx_Oracle. That's the reason I wr=
ote this little
>> Embedded C Program for that. On the C level I only get byte sequences =
anyway. So, I'm
>> sure that nothing but the Oracle client library is in between (hopeful=
ly ;-)).
>>
Okay, i got my test to work after patching cx_Oracle a little bit.

 From taking a closer look at the code Unicode support is at best to be d=
escribed as
'rudimentary', lots of fine points still missing in there.

With that patch (against the cx_Oracle-4.3.3.zip file) at least my test r=
uns through
cleanly when i set the right environment. One surely can do better....

Michael

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