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. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]