Re: LENGTH() and UTF-8

2005-05-09 Thread Andreas Steichardt
On Monday 09 May 2005 12:24, John Doe wrote: > Am Montag, 9. Mai 2005 11.55 schrieb Andreas Steichardt: > > Hi! > > > > We are storing UTF-8 data in out mysql database and we need to get the > > length of the data. But length() doesn't return the number of characters > > but the pure number of byte

Re: LENGTH() and UTF-8

2005-05-09 Thread Jochem van Dieten
On 5/9/05, Andreas Steichardt wrote: > > We are storing UTF-8 data in out mysql database and we need to get the > length > of the data. But length() doesn't return the number of characters but the > pure number of bytes. Look at OCTET_LENGTH() and CHAR_LENGTH(). (While OCTET_LENGTH() is a synon

Re: LENGTH() and UTF-8

2005-05-09 Thread John Doe
Am Montag, 9. Mai 2005 11.55 schrieb Andreas Steichardt: > Hi! > > We are storing UTF-8 data in out mysql database and we need to get the > length of the data. But length() doesn't return the number of characters > but the pure number of bytes. > > SELECT LENGTH('köter') => 6 > > Currently we are d