From: Kevin Lewis
Date: December 3 2008 5:12pm
Subject: Re: Please review fox for bug#34479
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 >> Bar wrote;
>> Sorry, I'm not strong with Falcon internals,
>> so I don't know why you need to trim trailing minSortChar.
>> This makes MySQLCollation::compare() work differently from
>> how collation really works.
>>
>> Can you please give some insight for this?

 > Lars-Erik Bjørk wrote:
> I think I will pass that one on to somebody else:) Maybe you could
> explain this briefly, Kevin?

The Falcon internal encoded record does not store trailing white space. 
  Jim Starkey has declared many times that he is on a mission to replace 
the use of char[anything], varchar[anything], etc with just 'string'. 
Falcon does that internally.  I also see no reason to store what does 
not matter.