> **IF** UNICODE_FSS was fixed at 3 bytes per character then you
> could work around the problem by multiplying your pos and
> length parameters. BUT if UNICODE_FSS is truly variable (as
> I believe it is) then SUBSTRING becomes essentially useless.
> Which is one of the reasons I stopped trying to use it.

Or it should be fixed to take "characters" instead of "bytes" :-)

With regards,

Martijn Tonies
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