On 16-11-2012 16:15, patrick_marten wrote: > Ah, ok, didn't consider that part about the characterset NONE. > > But if I have a database with ISO8859_1 as character set, there isn't going > to be a problem with the lengths of (var)char fields when pumping the data > into an UTF8 database, into (var)char fields defined with the same length / > number of characters, right?
There shouldn't be, except when you have VARCHAR fields larger than 8191 characters, or if all fields combined will now exceed 64 kilobytes. Mark -- Mark Rotteveel
