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

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Reinier Olislagers schrieb:
> 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.

Then the choice of byte sized characters in the DB field is 
inappropriate at all. I wonder how the DB or SQL would sort or compare 
(LIKE) such strings?

When the DB doesn't support better string types, like true UTF-8 or 
UTF-16 strings, your suggestion is the next best, i.e. abuse fixed size 
STRINGs for storing UTF-8 encoded values, and stay away from any string 
handling in the DB. This means that e.g. a character limit must be 
handled in application code, with either a sufficiently large fixed or a 
variable field size in the DB.

DoDi