In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Kevin Cowley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> If I knew why I wouldn't be asking. Now by our reconing the key of the
> fields is 343 bytes, encoding in UTF8 makes that key 343 bytes Not 1000
> since under utf8 each character is encode in 8 bits.

What makes you think so?  Under UTF8 each character is encoded in 8,
16, 24, or 32 bits - it depends on the character.  So a conservative
guess is that each UTF8 character needs 4 bytes.


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