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-**UPDATE: 5 April 2010** This technique does not appear to properly translate MySQL BLOB (binary) data. ''mysqldump'' dumps the blob as a binary string, which is represented in the dumpfile as a series of characters with a latin1 encoding. When ''iconv'' comes through, it //changes// the binary representation of those characters into the UTF-8 encoding, which corrupts the underlying binary data. +**UPDATE: 6 April 2010** This technique does not appear to properly translate MySQL BLOB (binary) data. ''mysqldump'' dumps the blob as a binary string, which is represented in the dumpfile as a series of characters with a latin1 encoding. When ''iconv'' comes through, it //changes// the binary representation of those characters into the UTF-8 encoding, which corrupts the underlying binary data.
The only solution I've found so far is to manually copy the binary data afterwards from the old DB to the new DB, using a multi-database ''UPDATE'' query like this: The only solution I've found so far is to manually copy the binary data afterwards from the old DB to the new DB, using a multi-database ''UPDATE'' query like this:
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