Hi Kenneth, I just closed this issue as "not a bug": MDEV-13361 Regression: LOAD DATA INFILE utf8 enconding issues Can you please document that when doing "SELECT INTO OUTFILE" followed by "LOAD DATA INFILE" for a mixture of text and binary data, one should use "CHARACTER SET binary" in both statements. This is needed to avoid escape sequences to be interpreted in a wrong way at "LOAD DATA" type. Thanks.