Multibyte design issue

i'm new to multibyte support

i'm using unicode

i'm wondering if i have to rethink the size of string fields (char & varchar)
to allow for other languages - like is there some way of figuring out if the
fields should be larger?

any ideas welcome

murray

Bruce Momjian wrote:

> Do we need an multibyte/locale/unicode FAQ item? Questions about these
> seem to be asked a lot, but the documentation for these items is quite
> good.
>
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