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Subject: Re: BPCHAR description in 8.3. Character Types is misleading and
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From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
To: Sergei Katkovsky <skatkovsky@gmail.com>
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Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2025 16:22:50 +0200
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On Mon, 2025-10-20 at 16:42 +0400, Sergei Katkovsky wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 18, 2025 at 2:36=E2=80=AFAM Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybert=
ec.at> wrote:
>=20
> > But perhaps it is really better to leave things as they are now, perhap=
s
> > replacing "blank-trimming", perhaps as "variable-length string that ign=
ores
> > training blanks".
>=20
> Looks like nobody is against "insignificant/ignorable trailing
> whitespace" or anything like that anymore? Am I right?

Any verbal description will never completely represent the facts.
But I'd say that "ignores trailing blanks" (not tabs, for example)
is a fairly accurate description.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe