Martijn Tonies wrote:

> Then what would be the raw byte buffer for a CHAR(2), UTF8, with
> a value of 'NO'?

'NO '

BTW, I don't like it any more than you do. I was not a big pain to add
this to FlameRobin, but in my PHP applications I really did not want to
cache or preload character set info, so I ended by trimming everything
instead. ;)

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