04.01.2017 11:30, Dmitry Yemanov wrote:
> AFAIU, ticket suggests to match API's subtype also to field's subtype,
> in addition to matching it to the field's charset/collation.

   AFAIU, it was suggested only for compatibility with ISC API which is 
deprecated anyway.

> But IMO it
> means that we cannot have other subtypes for strings in the future. I.e.
> subtype 4 cannot be anything else than UTF8 and so on. This looks too
> much limiting.

   Not quite so. In new API subtype and charset are independent things.


-- 
   WBR, SD.

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