Size of String fields with ZEOS
lazarus / 16-Databases

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Mando · 2011-02-21 18:03

Hi.

I want to set maxLenght of the DBEdit in a form. I used Zeos with a
firebird UTF8 database.
When I get the size of the field, the result is 4*actual size of the
field.

I defined a char field with length 6, but field.size returns 24. I
must divide by 4 to get the actual size of the field.

Why this behaivor?  Is it because database uses UTF8?



regards.

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Lacak2 · 2011-02-22 05:24

I think, that answer is yes.
But this is not good IMO.
Size should be equal to your SQL column definition = "character
length"
DataSize should be "byte length"