unicode, bytes redux

[Fredrik Lundh]

John Machin wrote:
>> > So all he needs is a boolean result: u.willitfit(encoding, width)
>>
>> at what point in the program would that method be used ?
>
> Never, I hope. Were you taking that as a serious suggestion? Fredrik,
> perhaps your irony detector needs a little preventative maintenance :-)

well, Willie did ask for something like that, didn't he ?  I'm just gathering
requirements...

>> how large are the strings, for typical cases ?
>
> He did mention it several posts ago -- I recall varchar(50) or
> something like that.

ok.  wake me up when he's dealing with columns defined as
varchar(50000000) or so...

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