Description:
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I have met this "bug" while I was creating a Russian site. I have a web form(ENCODING:UTF-8) and a simple query(My db uses UTF-8). When I submit the form, I get an error which says that the string is too long for the column but it is not the case(I just type the letters).

After a while debugging I have found out what is the problem. When I use mysql_real_escape_string() I get the error else I do not.

I have searched in the php site but I found nothing which has to do with encoding.

Reproduce code:
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//I will give only the php code though it is very simple
<?php
//MySQL connections and other stuff like this has been omitted because //of the code's size
$name = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['name']);

mysql_query("insert into users set name='".$name."');
?>

Expected result:
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No errors.

Actual result:
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MySQL error which says that the string is too long.