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

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

On Nov 28, 2007 9:16 AM, matilda matilda <ma...@gr...> wrote:
> >>> Michael Schlenker <ms...@co...> 28.11.2007 16:31 >>>
> >Michael Schlenker schrieb:
> > Okay, i got my test to work after patching cx_Oracle a little bit.
>
> Anthony will be happy to hear that.  ;-) Anthony: Are you still here?

I am. Just got back from a short trip and a little busy. I promise to
get to this as soon as I get a chance.

> > From taking a closer look at the code Unicode support is at best to be described as
> >'rudimentary', lots of fine points still missing in there.
>
> I'm sure Anthony will agree. Especially with the upcoming Py3000 there will
> be many questions to answer regarding byte-strams, unicode-streams, characterset
> conversion (implicit/explicit), character representation.

Yes, I'll agree. My Unicode skills are only slowly ramping up. :-) It
doesn't help that there are so many conflicting implementations to
confuse me, too. Any pointers, patches, etc. are highly welcomed. I'd
really like to get this Unicode thing licked properly instead of the
partially working code that is there now.

Anthony