Hello
I recently encountered the following problem. I changed the sql mode to
TRADITIONAL recently. Here is a test table for demonstration purposes.
CREATE TABLE `text_t` (
`t` text collate latin1_general_cs
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 COLLATE=latin1_general_cs
The following INSERT returns: error 1406 Data too long for column 't';
INSERT INTO text_t (t) values ('©')
Why? A single character can't be too long.
After executing INSERT IGNORE INTO text_t (t) values ('©'), the special
character '©' is inserted with a warning that the string had to be
truncated?
I then changed sql_mode again: SET sql_mode = ''. Thereafter the initial
INSERT worked correctly.
A few additional remarks:
* The special character seems to be part of the problem. Any normal
character works fine.
* The problem occured on my local server, MySQL version 5.0.37.
* I run a MAC book pro.
* I issued the same statements to a MySQL server on a Windows XP
machine. The problem simply didn't occur even in traditional sql mode.
Do you understand what is going on? Could it be a bug?
Thank you in advance for any help you can offer.
Roland K
