Merge pull request 'refs #2581 try several encodings on hivexregedit output' (#104) from hivexregedit-decode into main

Reviewed-on: #104

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -5,6 +5,12 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.1.0/),
 and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
 
+## [1.1.2] - 2025-07-31
+
+### Changed
+
+- Try several encodings on hivexregedit output
+
 ## [1.1.1] - 2025-07-29
 
 ### Fixed

ogclient/lib/python3/InventoryLib.py

@@ -266,8 +266,16 @@ def ogListSoftware (disk, par):
         if shutil.which ('hivexregedit'):
             hive = RegistryLib.ogGetHivePath (mntdir, 'software')
             if hive:
-                cmd1_out  = subprocess.run (['hivexregedit', '--unsafe-printable-strings', '--export', hive, r'\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall'],             capture_output=True, text=True, encoding='utf-16le').stdout
-                cmd1_out += subprocess.run (['hivexregedit', '--unsafe-printable-strings', '--export', hive, r'\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall'], capture_output=True, text=True, encoding='utf-16le').stdout
+                cmd1_out_bytes  = subprocess.run (['hivexregedit', '--unsafe-printable-strings', '--export', hive, r'\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall'],             capture_output=True).stdout
+                cmd1_out_bytes += subprocess.run (['hivexregedit', '--unsafe-printable-strings', '--export', hive, r'\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall'], capture_output=True).stdout
+                try:
+                    cmd1_out = cmd1_out_bytes.decode ('utf-16le')
+                except:
+                    try:
+                        cmd1_out = cmd1_out_bytes.decode ('utf-8')
+                    except:
+                        cmd1_out = cmd1_out_bytes.decode ('latin1')
+
                 out = name = ''
                 for l in cmd1_out.splitlines():
                     words = l.split ('"')