Olivier Mascia wrote:

> Another tricky way would be to have the buffer zero right-padded if
> the stored string uses less bytes than its maximum (even after space
> right padding up to the declared count of characters).

But that would cause problems if the actual data contains codepoint
zero. Or is that an illegal character in all supported character sets?
I'm pretty sure it isn't, but I might be wrong.

Kjell
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