Richard,

> I am now entering the wonderful world of text blobs in 2.0. The one
> thing I haven't managed to figure out is how to convert from the UFT8
> representation I have in my application to the character set used by
> the blob. My connection is set up to use UTF8 but I am wondering if
> that applies to reading and writing text blob contents via the API.
> I suspect it does not, so I was wondering if there is some mechanism
> built into the API to allow this. Filters or something?

By default, the engine does not care about the data which is stored in a
BLOB field. The interpretation is left to the application program to
handle.

Thus, there is no need to worry about charset/UTF-8 conversion, at the
database level.


Sean