[hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Closed: (HHH-898) OracleDialect UTF8 varchar2

OracleDialect UTF8 varchar2 --------------------------- Key: HHH-898 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-898 Project: Hibernate Core Issue Type: Improvement Components: core Affects Versions: 3.0.5 Reporter: Andrey Grebnev Assignee: Gavin King Fix For: 3.1 rc 1 By default Oracle interprets varchar2($l) as varchar2($l byte) It means that the length of string is 255 bytes. When I use ASCII symbols it is acceptably. But when I store UTF8 strings the length is really shorter. But most of all DBMS implies the length in chars not in bytes. I propose to change the line registerColumnType( Types.VARCHAR, 4000, "varchar2($l)" ); to registerColumnType( Types.VARCHAR, 4000, "varchar2($l char)" ); in order to have length of strings in chars by default.