> But the (X)SQLDA does not contain N. It does however contain charset id,
> which can be used to obtain "max bytes per char", which can be used in
> combination with the buffer size specified in SQLDA to determine N.

That is not correct. If I use UTF-8, one character can be 1 to 4 bytes. Using the buffersize and the 'max bytes per char' you will NOT be able to compute the characterlength.

Example:
buffer length of 4 bytes, UTF-8 (max 4 bytes per character): is this 1, 2, 3 or 4 characters? You simply don't know until you decode.

Mark
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