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Is there any way to set the length limit of a VARCHAR in bytes rather than characters, for strings that may use more characters in English (where the characters are almost exclusively 1-byte) than in Japanese or Chinese (where the characters will be 2 bytes or more)?
VARCHAR limits are specified in characters, but if you know the character set, you know the limit in bytes. See the list of supported character sets which indicate the maximum lengths.