Martijn Tonies wrote:

> > I assume with varchar, FB trims the buffer to the data size actually
> used?
>
> That's strange, why shouldn't it do this with the CHAR datatype? Apparently,
> it "knows" how many characters equals a certain number of bytes.

Yes. It was just a guess from me. I'll shut up and let someone who
*knows* answer your question. :-)

Kjell
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