Field length problem with mySQL

[eluser]educator[/eluser]
I have an application which accesses some VARCHAR(256) fields in mySQL. When the user enters data, it is correctly stored in these fields. But whenever I retrieve it for reporting it is truncated to 127 characters.

Any ideas on this?

[eluser]jmadsen[/eluser]
how do you know it is being truncating to 127?

post some code, and tell us what debugging you've done so far