Re: BLOB data gets encoded as utf8! (Anyone?)

2010-08-30 Thread Carlos Proal
I think that probably the mistake is in the way you are inserting the blob. If i understand right, you are inserting the blob with a traditional insert statement ??, in my experience i always use prepared statements to insert blobs, in that way the text goes exactly as the source without any

Re: BLOB data gets encoded as utf8! (Anyone?)

2010-08-29 Thread Johan De Meersman
Is the code you use to get the data out in the same charset as the code you use to put the data in ? Both should ideally also match your database setting. Have you tried explicitly setting the connection to UTF8 ? Just swinging in the dark, here, really. On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 8:04 AM, Andreas

BLOB data gets encoded as utf8! (Anyone?)

2010-08-28 Thread Andreas Iwanowski
Has no one encountered this before? There has got to be a solution, and I still haven't found it... So if you have any input please let me know! -Original Message- From: Andreas Iwanowski [mailto:namez...@afim.info] Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 2:48 PM To: mysql@lists.mysql.com