[Lazarus] Losing data when saving Database fileds with "Size" defined and UTF8 chars

[Reinier Olislagers]

On 15-7-2013 18:43, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
> Reinier Olislagers schrieb:
>> On 14-7-2013 8:00, Daniel Simoes de Ameida wrote:
>> Workaround: make your field size as large as the maximum number of UTF8
>> bytes you expect.
> 
> Another workaround: use the appropriate codepage for storing strings in
> the database, so that all characters are single bytes. With the new
> (encoded) AnsiStrings this should be quite easy (automatic conversion).
> 

Wouldn't you run into trouble if you want to use a character outside the
codepage? Presumably OP has enabled UTF8 on the db instead of some other
codepage on purpose.