Re: [Firebird-net-provider] bug report: UNICODE_FSS + CHAR causes exception

[Peter J. <pj...@wa...>]

Hi Pierre,

> > It's 3 bytes per character.
> 
> ...because the internal coding is UTF-8, not UTF-16, so yes, basically, most
> of the simple Unicode characters map to at most 3 bytes using UTF-8. Some
> more exotic characters won't make it, however.

In fact, UNICODE_FSS is more like CESU-8 and the the non-BMP characters
will be represented as two "characters" (low and hi surrogate) each taking 
3 bytes, for a total of 6 bytes.

Regards,
Peter Jacobi