--- In firebird-python@yahoogroups.com, Uwe Grauer
<uwemailmeister@...> wrote:

>
> Uwe Grauer wrote:
> > Andreas Hesse wrote:
> >> I notice a wrong field length with connection charset UTF8.
> >> All field length are 4 times greater as their defined length.
> >> Problems appears with fixed length char fields.
> >> A field with defined as CHAR(1) will produce output as 'A ' with 3
> >> trailing blanks.
> >>
> The thread with subject "Right-padded char fields?" on firebird-support
> from Sep 1 2008 has more info on this.
>

One thing seems not really clear in that thread: that this padding
depends only on the connection charset, not on the column charset in
the database, exactly as Andreas describes it. It happens even with a
column declared with character set ASCII, which could never need
additional bytes.

Regards,
Sibylle