> > In in "standard" command-line client this session choice would be set in
> > my.ini under the name default-character-set, if I'm not mistaken.
> > Changing its value from utf8 to latin1 could maybe "solve" the problem.
>
> On linux, so its my.cnf and all the character-sets are latin1 and
> character-set-server as well

Even if it were utf8 and switching to latin1 would "solve" the problem:
My possibly naive expectation would be that PRECISION returns the number
of characters and not the number of bytes required to represent these
characters.

Best wishes,
Michael
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