I think you have answered you question yourself. See below --

On 3/4/08, Gilles Ganault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello
>
>         I thought that SQLite treated any numeric data the same, but some
>  Delphi components seem to handle TEXT data as BLOB/MEMO, and handle
>  VARCHAR as regular text:

SQLite doesn't care. Anything using SQLite is free to do what it wants.

>
>  http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/8614/nextdbgridparentzt9.jpg
>  http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/6615/delphismdbgrid1hw8.jpg
>
>  I'd like to know if there are drawbacks to switching from TEXT to
>  (VAR)CHAR? I'd rather not have to specify the maximum length of text
>  items because I usually don't know how bit they might be.
>

Once again, SQLite doesn't care and will happily store a million
character string in a TEXT (1) column.
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