patrick_marten schrieb am 16.11.2012 um 14:59 (-0000):

> > Thus, you may need to increase your character fields size.

> I mean "z" is a character and "й" is a character. They just
> require different size when being stored.

You weren't talking about literal "й", were you? Because that
is a numeric character reference in XML (Unicode char 0x0439: й),
but it is, of course, a CHAR(7) in SQL.

Michael