The name VARCHAR is confusing since it's not properly defined what a character is. 1 byte? Something on the unicode table? If it'd be named VARBYTE(255) it woul

The name VARCHAR is confusing since it's not properly defined what a character is. 1 byte? Something on the unicode table? If it'd be named VARBYTE(255) it would be pretty obvious that a 255-emoji-string insert would fail. https://eev.ee/blog/2015/09/12/dark-corners-of-unicode/ https://eev.ee/blog/2015/09/12/dark-corners-of-unicode/