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UTF8 codec error

Hello

I'm having some trouble with the blob MySQL data field and images.  I have some existing image data from a MySQL database when I try and display this data I get the error

"UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode bytes in position 3574-3576: invalid data"

When I try and insert data into the field I get the error

"'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xff in position 0: unexpected code byte"

I have seen an existing topic on the forum (http://dev.activegrid.com/forums/?q=node/309) for checking the default character set, these are all utf8.

Does anyone have a suggestion for a solution?

Many thanks in advance for any help

James