Size of String fields with ZEOS

[Mando]

Hi.

I want to set maxLenght of the DBEdit in a form. I used Zeos with a firebird UTF8 database.
When I get the size of the field, the result is 4*actual size of the field.

I defined a char field with length 6, but field.size returns 24. I must divide by 4 to get the actual size of the field.

Why this behaivor?  Is it because database uses UTF8?



regards.

[Lacak2]

I think, that answer is yes.
But this is not good IMO.
Size should be equal to your SQL column definition = "character length"
DataSize should be "byte length"