Error: #1071 - Specified key was too long; max key length is 1000 bytes - mysql 5.0.91

Question

I am using mysql 5.0.91 and I need to save URLs ( some are small and some are very long ). I want to use varchar(2000) but I get an error:

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Answer 1

I ran I that error because I choose utf-16 collation in db - switched back to utf-8 general-ci - and it was gone.