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How many bytes does a Chinese character occupy in GaussDB?
Updated on 2025-08-19 GMT+08:00
How many bytes does a Chinese character occupy in GaussDB?
Answer: It depends on the encoding mode for character sets of the database.
- For the GBK character set, a Chinese character occupies two bytes.
- For the UTF8 character set, a Chinese character occupies three bytes.
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