I've declared a field in my INNODB/MySQL table as
VARCHAR(255) CHARACTER SET utf8 NOT NULL
however when inserting my data is truncated at 255 bytes not characters. This might chop the trailing two bite code point i*emphasized text*n two leaving an invalid character. Any ideas what I might be doing wrong
EDIT:
A sample session is like this
mysql> update channel set comment="ᚠᛇᚻ᛫ᛒᛦᚦ᛫ᚠᚱᚩᚠᚢᚱ᛫ᚠᛁᚱᚪ᛫ᚷᛖᚻᚹᛦᛚᚳᚢᛗ ᛋᚳᛖᚪᛚ᛫ᚦᛖᚪᚻ᛫ᛗᚪᚾᚾᚪ᛫ᚷᛖᚻᚹᛦᛚᚳ᛫ᛗᛁᚳᛚᚢᚾ᛫ᚻᛦᛏ᛫ᛞᚫᛚᚪᚾᚷᛁᚠ᛫ᚻᛖ᛫ᚹᛁᛚᛖ᛫ᚠᚩᚱ᛫ᛞᚱᛁᚻᛏᚾᛖ᛫ᛞᚩᛗᛖᛋ᛫ᚻᛚᛇᛏᚪᚾ᛬x" where id = 1;
Query OK, 0 rows affected, 1 warning (0.00 sec)
Rows matched: 1 Changed: 0 Warnings: 1
mysql> select id, channelName, comment from channel;
+----+-------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| id | channelName | comment |
+----+-------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| 1 | foo | ᚠᛇᚻ᛫ᛒᛦᚦ᛫ᚠᚱᚩᚠᚢᚱ᛫ᚠᛁᚱᚪ᛫ᚷᛖᚻᚹᛦᛚᚳᚢᛗ ᛋᚳᛖᚪᛚ᛫ᚦᛖᚪᚻ᛫ᛗᚪᚾᚾᚪ᛫ᚷᛖᚻᚹᛦᛚᚳ᛫ᛗᛁᚳᛚᚢᚾ᛫ᚻᛦᛏ᛫ᛞᚫᛚᚪᚾᚷᛁᚠ᛫ᚻᛖ᛫ᚹᛁᛚᛖ᛫ᚠᚩ�� |
+----+-------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
via mysql-admin I look at the comment field and see that it is indeed VARCHAR(255) and uses "UTF-8 Unicode"
from the command
show full columns from channel
I get
+-----------------------------+------------------+-----------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+---------------------------------+---------+
| Field | Type | Collation | Null | Key | Default | Extra | Privileges | Comment |
+-----------------------------+------------------+-----------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+---------------------------------+---------+
| id | int(11) | NULL | NO | PRI | NULL | auto_increment | select,insert,update,references | |
| channelName | varchar(255) | utf8_general_ci | NO | | NULL | | select,insert,update,references | |
| comment | varchar(255) | utf8_general_ci | NO | | NULL | | select,insert,update,references | |
+-----------------------------+------------------+-----------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+---------------------------------+---------+
mysql> SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'character_set%'
+--------------------------+----------------------------+
| Variable_name | Value |
+--------------------------+----------------------------+
| character_set_client | latin1 |
| character_set_connection | latin1 |
| character_set_database | latin1 |
| character_set_filesystem | binary |
| character_set_results | latin1 |
| character_set_server | latin1 |
| character_set_system | utf8 |
| character_sets_dir | /usr/share/mysql/charsets/ |
+--------------------------+----------------------------+