However, today (end 2025), it already fails during the pyodbc.connect() call. I strongly suspect this to be a encoding issue (perhaps sprinkled with some bugs in the FileMaker ODBC implementation), ...

Pillow is the friendly PIL fork by Jeffrey A. Clark and contributors. PIL is the Python Imaging Library by Fredrik Lundh and contributors. As of 2019, Pillow development is supported by Tidelift. The ...