> Well that is good to hear! At least if I use UTF8 for the connection
> character class I will only have to deal with UTF8 data and never any
> other character sets.

Not quite so. There are two exceptions: columns with charsets NONE
and OCTETS are delivered "as is", no matter of connection charset.

> As a matter of fact if I know I'm always using
> UTF8 then wouldn't every char result I get back always have a buffer
> size of 4 times the character length and I could just use this as a
> fact?

Yes, if you know about two exceptions above.

SY, SD.