By joel_guesclin on

I have a problem which occurs generally with non-European languages, especially Russian and Bengali. Presumably because in Unicode a lot of the characters are two-byte (and in the Indic scripts also, a lot of "characters" are actually working to modify adjacent characters, rather like accents in European languages), I often find that the node title is too short to contain the titles that I want for articles.

A simple solution to this would be to modify the node table to increase the size of the title field. However, I hesitate to do this in 4.6 because I am afraid that the modification will get lost when I upgrade to 4.7. Can somebody tell me whether this is indeed the case, or can I safely assume that my longer titles will survive the upgrade?

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soupp commented

What is your mysql version? I had some probs like this in mysql 4.0 but 4.1.+ 5.+ worked fine.

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joel_guesclin commented

The version is 4.1.20 - but I think that the problem is simply to do with the size of the title field in the node table. I did try fixing this once and discovered that simply doubling the field size did the trick. Problem is, I'm not sure whether the increased field size will be kept when I upgrade from 4.6 to 4.7