Using an Oracle 2-Tier script with VuGen 11.52 Patch 1 In Data Grids in fields where Oracle server returns string these appear in Grid with "?????????? ????????"

Document ID:KM00964171
Creation Date:30-May-2014
Modified Date:30-May-2014
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Summary

Using an Oracle 2-Tier script with VuGen 11.52 Patch 1 Russian characters are not displayed correctly in the Grid. A fix is provided to overcome this issue.

Question

Using an Oracle 2-Tier script with VuGen 11.52 Patch 1 in Data Grids in fields where Oracle server returns string with Russian characters these appear in Grid with "?????????? ????????". Despite of this data display problem the script is successfully replayed.

A Vugen 11.04 recording or replay of the same business process and using Oracle 2-Tier protolcol does not show this problem.

Answer

Cause:

Before the strings to be displayed on the UI they were encoded by ASCII table instead of encoding the string according to system's locale.

Apply the below hotfix:

- Hotfix for LR11.52 Patch 1

Backup the existing copy of the dll within <LR>/bin folder and replace it with the hotfix DLL.