unicode, bytes redux

[Fredrik Lundh]

John Machin wrote:

> Actually, what Willie was concerned about was some cockamamie DBMS
> which required to be fed Unicode, which it encoded as UTF-8, but
> silently truncated if it was more than the n in varchar(n) ... or
> something like that.
>
> So all he needs is a boolean result: u.willitfit(encoding, width)

at what point in the program would that method be used ?

how large are the strings, for typical cases ?

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