31.08.2013 10:55, Mark Rotteveel wrote: > I'd prefer to have an option to use UTF-16 (treated as a 2-byte > character set with surrogate pairs) as that will only halve the maximum > allowed number of characters.
Nope. If you take into account surrogates, UTF-16 will have the same maximum of 4 bytes per character. -- WBR, SD. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn the latest--Visual Studio 2012, SharePoint 2013, SQL 2012, more! Discover the easy way to master current and previous Microsoft technologies and advance your career. Get an incredible 1,500+ hours of step-by-step tutorial videos with LearnDevNow. Subscribe today and save! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=58040911&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel