Thank you for your reply, Janusz.
I appreciate your help.
I have tried making that call before the INSERT statement, but to no avail.
The table collation is set to utf8 - default collation, and all columns are
set to Table default.
I am thinking that this problem might be due to me sending the
I can't help but wonder, if you send a string, does that mean you're putting
text in a blob ? Blobs are binary, and thus don't get encoded in the sense
of UTF8 vs Unicode. For a string, you may want a TEXT type column.
On the other hand, if you're indeed trying to insert binary data, it is not
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
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
