LENGTH and CHAR_LENGTH give the same length

[Luca]

Hi All

I was just testing both function and tried to generate different results for both.
Here is what I did:

mysql> select length(CONVERT('hallo' USING sjis) ) length, char_length(CONVERT('hallo' USING sjis)) char_length ;
+--------+-------------+
| length | char_length |
+--------+-------------+
| 5 | 5 |
+--------+-------------+
1 row in set (0.01 sec)

because LENGHT should give the length in bytes why are both results the same ?

Thnx
LuCa