Does Postgresql varchar count using unicode character length or ASCII character length?

Question

I tried importing a database dump from a SQL file and the insert failed when inserting the string Mér into a field defined as varying(3). I didn\'t

Answer 1

It depends what value you used when you created the database. createdb -E UNICODE creates a Unicode DB that should also accept multibyte characters and count them as one character.

You can use

psql -l

to see which encoding was used. This page has a table including information about how many bytes per character are used.