Re: [GENERAL] unicode and varchar

2004-09-11 Thread Ian Barwick
On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 14:57:18 +0200, Michael Wimmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (...) > Is there a way to make this work in 7.4.x too? > May problem is that we are in a rush to do a port of our application > from informix and I will not be able to wait until 8.0 will be released. What encoding does

[GENERAL] unicode and varchar

2004-09-10 Thread Michael Wimmer
Hi all, I have a problem when inserting into a varchar field via jdbc. Using to bytes makes the varchar fields shorten. Example: with 7.4.5. on Linux create table test(charfield varchar(5)); insert into test(charfield) values('abcde'); insert into test(charfield) values('ΓΌΓΆ'); select bit_length(cha