Comments on: database column limits and utf8 strings /2009/09/database-column-limits-and-utf8-strings/ Blog by Mightyverse people Wed, 11 Jun 2014 13:30:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7 By: Sarah Allen /2009/09/database-column-limits-and-utf8-strings/comment-page-1/#comment-338 Tue, 26 Jul 2011 03:04:32 +0000 /?p=103#comment-338 In Rails 3.1 (and maybe Rails 3 also), ActiveSupport Multibyte::Chars class has a limit method that does the right thing for Ruby 1.8.7 and above. Yay!

]]> By: emoglen /2009/09/database-column-limits-and-utf8-strings/comment-page-1/#comment-337 Sun, 13 Sep 2009 01:38:12 +0000 /?p=103#comment-337 That was downright nifty. And here I thought that the “Nifty Fifty” simply referred to the elite (and unofficial) group of LA session players that play on the majority of all of the major Hollywood films…

Nifty fifty, 50 bytes indeed!

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