On 16-11-2012 16:15, patrick_marten wrote:

> Ah, ok, didn't consider that part about the characterset NONE.
>
> But if I have a database with ISO8859_1 as character set, there isn't going to be a problem with the lengths of (var)char fields when pumping the data into an UTF8 database, into (var)char fields defined with the same length / number of characters, right?

There shouldn't be, except when you have VARCHAR fields larger than 8191
characters, or if all fields combined will now exceed 64 kilobytes.

Mark
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