[pywin32-bugs] [ pywin32-Bugs-1731295 ] _GetServiceShortName doesn't work with non-ascii characters

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Bugs item #1731295, was opened at 2007-06-05 16:25
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Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
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Submitted By: Shailesh Kumar (shailesh1729)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: _GetServiceShortName doesn't work with non-ascii characters

Initial Comment:
This problem came up when running on a Japanese computer. 

I was calling QueryServiceStatus for a non-existent
service. 

My code ran like: 
def serviceExists(serviceName):
    exists = True
    try:
        status = win32serviceutil.QueryServiceStatus(serviceName)
    except win32api.error, (rc, fnerr, msg):
        exists = False
    if exists:
        logging.info('%s  service exists.' % serviceName)
    else:
        logging.info("%s service doesn't exist" % serviceName)
    return exists

On english computers, this worked fine.
On a Japanese computer, it led to following exception.


  File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32\lib\win32serviceutil.py", line 479, in QueryServiceStatus
    hs = SmartOpenService(hscm, serviceName, win32service.SERVICE_QUERY_STATUS)
  File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32\lib\win32serviceutil.py", line 81, in SmartOpenService
    name = _GetServiceShortName(name)
  File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32\lib\win32serviceutil.py", line 66, in _GetServiceShortName
    if thisName.lower() == longName:
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x83 in position 4: ordinal not in range(128)





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