[horde] switching to UTF8 database

[Andrew Morgan]

On Tue, 7 Feb 2012, Jan Schneider wrote:

>
> Zitat von Andrew Morgan <morgan at orst.edu>:
>
>> Is this really a problem for latin1 to utf8?  If there are no conversions 
>> that result in a double-byte character, then I think it would be okay.
>
> That has nothing to do with the charset though. If you data only contains 
> ascii data, it doesn't matter to which charset you convert, indeed. As soon 
> it latin1-specific characters, it will break.

Can you explain why?  How does the string length change?  Perhaps an 
example would help me understand.  :)

Thanks,
 	Andy