[Phpmyadmin-devel] BLOB always binary?

[Marc Delisle]

Hi,

In this change:
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/phpmyadmin/phpMyAdmin/tbl_properties_structure.php3.diff?r1=1.37&r2=1.38

rabus treats all BLOBs as binary.

According to
http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/BLOB.html

we don't know if a BLOB has binary contents (even if the B stands for 
Binary). Lots of users put text only in their blobs, and IMO there
is nothing wrong with this in MySQL. Do we really want to force
users on this?

Maybe we discussed this earlier, somebody please refresh my memory.

Marc