https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105711
--- Comment #11 from Lionel Elie Mamane <lio...@mamane.lu> ---
(In reply to Tamas Bunth from comment #10)
> (In reply to Lionel Elie Mamane from comment #9)
>> I'd just let it be, and let the Firebird "misfeature" bubble up. A length of
>> 5 in the GUI should be a VARCHAR(5) in Firebird. If firebird understands
>> that as 5 bytes, then so be it.
> A length of 5 in the GUI is a VARCHAR(5) in Firebird, which allocates 20
> bytes (as long as the character set is UTF-8).
> The problem is rather the following:
> Firebird truncates the input string at 20 bytes no matter how many
> characters it contains.
> I think it's a bug in Firebird (but I couldn't find it in the bug tracker).
> There are two kind of length functions (actually there are three of them):
> char_length and octet_length[1]
> and they are working as expected.
So Firebird already has a working notion & implementation of "character". So
definitely, yes, I'd say that the right place to fix that is Firebird. Just
file it as a bug.
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