> At 11:35 AM 8/05/2009, Alan McDonald wrote:
>
> >Helen, this is content, not a declaration of charset for the blob
> type.
> >the CONTAINING select works fine for me on a TEXT blob on NONE charset
> for
> >this content.
>
> With UTF-16 data?
>
> Remember, he started out with this data in a binary blob...would not
> have been transliterated when he wrote it to a text blob...so when he
> passes an ansi (or UFT8) search string, he's not getting a match.
>
> ./hb

it's more likely that the XML header is there as a default transport
declaration. The content, however, is not utf-16. Certainly the snippet he
has provided is not UTF-16.
Let's hear from him now.
Alan