oracledb.exceptions.NotSupportedError: DPY-3012: national character set id 871 is not supported by python-oracledb in thin mode

[nchillal]

Getting below error oracledb.exceptions.NotSupportedError: DPY-3012: national character set id 871 is not supported by python-oracledb in thin mode after installing python-oracledb

Database is running in utf-8 and it can't be changed. How can this be resolved?

[anthony-tuininga]

See #16. I pushed a patch three days ago that allows you to connect, but not fetch data in NCHAR, NVARCHAR2 or NCLOB columns. If that restriction is acceptable and you are able to build binaries for yourself, then you can use that approach. If those restrictions are unacceptable, you'll have to enable thick mode. See the documentation for details!