This is the right answer. I had the job of planning a schema update to fix this shitty design.
Saying that, unicode and character formats are incredibly complex things that are not easily implemented. For example two strings in utf-8 can contain the same number of characters but be hugely different in size (up to 3-4x different!). It’s well worth reading through some articles to get a feel of the important points.
This is the right answer. I had the job of planning a schema update to fix this shitty design.
Saying that, unicode and character formats are incredibly complex things that are not easily implemented. For example two strings in utf-8 can contain the same number of characters but be hugely different in size (up to 3-4x different!). It’s well worth reading through some articles to get a feel of the important points.