From: Warren Young
Date: June 23 2008 5:27pm
Subject: Re: mysqlpp::String and UTF-8
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On Jun 23, 2008, at 1:49 AM, Soul Boy wrote:

> I read your Unicode section and I am still not sure about the String  
> class and UTF-8 data.
>
> If I call size() when the string will it return "Return number of  
> characters in string." or the number of bytes or what ?

mysqlpp::String does not do any data conversion.  Therefore, you will  
get a count of the raw UTF-8 bytes, not the number of Unicode  
characters.  You will need to use something like std::wstring to store  
a "widened" version of the string, and count the characters that way.

I've added a Wishlist item to make this easier within MySQL++.