Is this safe?

[jda]

>On 6/28/05 10:28 PM, "jda" <jda at his.com> wrote:
>
>Hi Jon,
>
>>  I have varchar fields I declared as 2000 chars (utf-16) (API way). I
>>  want to change it to 1022. I have done so and opened old databases
>>  with no obvious problem -- setting are saved and restored.
>>
>>  Is this safe with older databases?
>
>Logically you can truncate some very long strings, right ?
>
>I think this is only potential problem
>

Ah, good. The strings should all be <100 chars. I only used 2000 when 
I thought that was the 'optimal' length. Now I know that 1022 is best 
for utf-16 fields.

Thanks!

Jon