<p dir="auto"><strong>Migrated issue, originally created by Michael Bayer (<a href="https://github.com/zzzeek">@zzzeek</a>)</strong></p>
<p dir="auto">cx_oracle types that subclass _NativeUnicodeMixin but not _OracleUnicodeText are essentially text types where convert_unicode=True/'force' is entirely non functional.  Even if the cx_oracle coerce_to_unicode flag is turned on, which we no longer recommend, a CLOB will never return unicode.  this needs to be worked out so that the public flags at least do as expected.</p>
<p dir="auto"><strong>Migrated issue, originally created by Oleg Talalov (<a href="https://github.com/olegtalalov">@olegtalalov</a>)</strong></p>
<p dir="auto">Customer's database contains BINARY_FLOAT_INFINITY value in one column in few rows.</p>
<p dir="auto">During requsting rows in fetch, function _detect_decimal called with value '<del>' and raise exception:<br>
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: '</del>'</p>
<p dir="auto">I use cx_orcale 5.3 and 6.0</p>
<p dir="auto">Oracle Database 12c Enterprise Edition Release 12.1.0.2.0 - 64bit Production</p>