> A> Why do you think that it would not be possible to store a
> A> significant trailing zero in charset octets?
>
> Mmm... I was sure that trailing padchars were stripped when
> you select from a varchar field. As you point out, this is
> not the case.

It is worth noting that some client components may trim trailing #0 or
#32 characters anyway.

For example, with IB Objects I had to set

TIB_Connection.DefaultNoTrimming := True;

to get the untrimmed field content.

I hope it helps,
Tim Woodward