Any progress on this issue?
It is also affecting 'Image Preview' and 'Save BLOB to file...'
What decoding on a (VAR)BINARY column - you don't decode BINARY data
...yet it looks like HeidiSQL thinks it's UTF-8 or something alike
I'm using VABINARY(max) column to store GIF images and just noticed that 7bit ASCII is OK its mostly 8 bit characters that are wrong
e.g.
GIF89aÈ. becomes
GIF89aÈ.
yes that's a byte longer because 8-bit È => È
..or it could be that Export also applies a set of its own bugs
Here first 16 bytes for comparison (good /SquirrelSQL/ vs bad /HeidiSQL/ data)
4749 4638 3961 C800 3C00 F500 0002 0202 GIF89aÈ.[.õ.....
4749 4638 3961 C388 003C 00C3 B500 0002 GIF89aÈ.[.õ...
and how it is interpreted by HeidiSQL
4749 4638 3961 C8 003C 00F5 00 0002 0202
4749 4638 3961 C388 003C 00C3B5 00 0002 0202
HTH