Alexander Barkov wrote:
>
> That's true , <tab> in many collations is the smallest character
> (i.e. minSortChar=<tab>), and space is greater than <tab>.
>
> So does not seem correct to remove both spaces and tabs, and
> then execute strnncoll() for the results in the patch for
> bug#34479.
>
You're absolutely right.
We should not remove tabs, but only spaces. I don't know what
the code does currently, but the original design (not necessarily
its implementation) removed only spaces. (And, of course, trailing
zeros for numerics, but that's another topic.)
Best regards,
Ann
