[python-win32] com_error Unicode problems

[Tim Golden]

niki wrote:
> Tim Golden wrote:
>> The OP is running on a Simple Chinese edition of Windows XP,
>> and the error message, naturally, returns Simple Chinese
>> characters. But... it's apparent that the com_error info
>> structure returns not Unicode but byte stream. I *think*
>> I can decode into Unicode by using the sys.stdout.encoding,
>> but even if I'm right that's a fragile solution: running
>> under the SciTE editor, eg, sys.stdout.encoding is None.

>> 3) Is there something more obvious which I've missed?
> 
> Yes use 'mbcs' codec :)
> 
> HTH
> 
> Niki Spahiev

Thank you so much. I knew there'd be something nice
and obvious which I'd overlooked.

TJG