--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "Ivan Prenosil"
<Ivan.Prenosil@...> wrote:

>
> > MY understanding of UNICODE_FSS was that it is a 'wide' string

format,

> > and that 24bits per character were used, so 3 bytes.
>
> No, one character is 1 or 2 or 3 bytes.

Ok, this questiondoesn't really have to do with the subject anymore,
but if I declare a char or varchar with size x in my database, how
much memory will be reserved, x bytes, x*3 bytes, ...?