Posted by C Drozdowski on 04/08/05 05:08

I need to be able to store UTF-8 characters from a form into a MySQL
table. But I need to support pre-UTF-8 MySQL (< 4.1).

So I'm converting UTF-8 characters into their numeric entities (e.g. ñ
= &#241;).

The problem is that if the user enters a character that gets converted
to an entity, the string might end up being longer than the field
definition in the table allows.

For example, if I have a varchar(5) column and try to insert "señor"
(which has been converted to "sen&#241;or"), I get "sen&#" in the table
which is useless.

Has anyone dealt with this and if so how?

Thanks in advance for any advice, or pointers to any code that deals with this.

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