Hi, I'm trying to connect to a db with a Chinese filename. My code is simply:
import fdb dbname = u'localhost:/home/hamish/汉密斯.fdb' db = fdb.connect(dsn=dbname) On Python 3.5.3 this works, but on 2.7.13 it doesn't. Same code, same fdb (1.8). Both on linux (Debian stretch). fdb.fbcore.DatabaseError: ('Error while connecting to database:\n- SQLCODE: -924\n- Invalid connection string\n- Cannot transliterate character between character sets\n- Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character', -924, 335544972) It does work on an older Python 2.7.9 install I have, although for some reason on that setup fdb.fbcore._FS_ENCODING = ANSI_X3.4-1968 not UTF-8, so I had to override it. Speaking of the file system encoding detection, doesn't this depend on the remote host, not local where it's detected? On my Windows python 2 install, the encoding is 'mbcs', not UTF-8. I'm also having issues trying to connect to a Chinese-named db on Windows. Hamish