I'm using Ruby 2.1.1 and Rails 4.1.1, with SQLite and, respectively, Postgres. All my strings are supposed to be UTF-8 encoded. Now, assuming I create a field in my model as data:string{20} can I safely assume, that this will store up to 20 characters, even if each character happens to be 3 bytes long in UTF-8 encoding? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/f8745945a4fc1581b8072e461ae0ca50%40ruby-forum.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.