> > > What now?
> >
> > Change encoding to UTF-8 at least.
> >
> > SY, SD.
> >
>
> I have no idea how to do that. Will that have a negative side effect
> on plain text (ASCII) files that also exist in this field?
>

you're storing plain ascii text and these unicode files (text) in the same
field in a table?
Alan