Or, you could count it in Unicode characters, and not in whatever bizarro charset you're using over there. Then "À" is one character, just as it's supposed to be.

The problem typically comes from improper conversion between charsets. Like Windows-1252 to Unicode, or something equally horrible.

[–] Kojichan@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

I was basically calculating in Javavscript then in PHP for validation before I sent it to Zoho.

The DB also was fine. It was honestly just PHP and Javascript. It's all good now though!

[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Not if the maximum is due to the database being configured to have a maximum space of 2000 bytes for that field.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

Ah, well, bytes ≠ characters, but yes, that can certainly be an issue.