Object Entry Name: Decoding fails

[hstroetgen]

I have a Beckhoff PWM Terminal and there exists an object entry whose name contains a "µ" (0xb5).
As soon I call the property name the decoding failes at byte 0xb5.
It seems the encoding of the string is "latin" (µ: 0xb5) and not "UTF-8" (µ: 0xc2b5).

pysoem/pysoem/pysoem.pyx

Line 1128 in d52cd51

return (<bytes>self._ex_oelist.Name[self._item]).decode('utf8')

[bnjmnp]

Hi. I should have better just returned the bytes, without decoding them...? Who knows if latin encoding is used consistently by all device vendors.

[hstroetgen]

Hey! Yes, I guess returning bytes is the easiest and most convenient way to solve that. 👍