Has this been fixed?

Ann W. Harrison wrote:

>Here's the situation in 1.5, as I understand it.
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>If you declare a varchar(10) with no character set
>or a single byte character set, Firebird allocates
>10 bytes (plus two bytes of length) and you can
>store up to 10 single byte characters.
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>If you declare a varchar(10) specifying a two-
>byte character set, Firebird allocates 20 bytes
>plus the same two byte length) and you can store
>up to 10 two-byte characters.
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>If you declare a varchar(10) and specify a
>variable length character set (e.g. UNICODE_FSS)
>Firebird allocated a 30 byte space plus the two
>length bytes. Firebird checks the byte length
>of the stored string, not the character length,
>so you can store up to 30 single byte characters,
>up to 15 two-byte characters, up to 10 three byte
>characters, and 7 four byte characters. You can
>also mix and match ... 6 single byte characters
>plus 5 three byte characters, plus 4 two byte
>characters...
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>Regards,
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>Ann
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