Clarissa Walker - 2012-02-29

For anyone reading this list:

This modification brings unintended results, especially for the $compact array:
http://forums.rivetcode.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=340&start=10#p1114

They are raw octets anyway, so encoding the strings would be incorrect:
http://web.archiveorange.com/archive/v/5qXIX9t64dhuQTzopUV0 (Second to last Post)

Further tests proved the original code was working properly. (Same thread.)

It was probably a charset and collation-related issue because none were provided by default when the database tables were installed, therefore the default settings provided by the MySQL database configuration were used:
http://forums.rivetcode.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=340&start=10#p1119