> > There have been three ideas of what octet_length() sould return:
> >
> > 1) compressed on-disk storage length
> > 2) byte length in server-side encoding
> > 3) byte length in client-side encoding
>
> Very nice is possibility of choice... What add everything:
>
> octet_length_storage()
> octet_length_server()
> octet_length_client()
We only need one of octet_length_server() or octet_length_client().
We could emulate the rest using convert() etc.
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Tatsuo Ishii
