V4RB, Jon, project /// More explanation.

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 9/16/04 12:30 AM, "jda" <jda at his.com> wrote:

>> 
>>>> I suggest that 50 always means bytes, and if you want to store 50
>>>>  UTF-16 characters that you declare a VString of [100]
>>> 
>>>  Agreed; that would be much more consistent.
>> 
>> I still do not think so.
>> 
> 
> You make the final decision, of course. But as you said, we are *all*
> developers on this list and would prefer to deal with bytes, not
> characters. I assure you that if you mix the meaning of the number
> parameter as a function of the type of encoding there will be lots of
> problems (both with existing users and new users). And what happens
> to existing data space if you change the encoding? Why create this
> headache?

Okay, we will think one more about this.

Just also exists SQL standard

Also Ivan says that other DBMS "think" in chars.

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