Storing Japanese/chinese characters in Blob datatype

This is a multipart mime message --Next_1089116537---0-202.54.124.151-12684 Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline <P>=0ADear All,<BR>=0A<BR>=0AI am facing a problem of storing japanese/chin= ese data in blob datatype. I have created a database in utf8 format to supp= ort multi-lingual data.&nbsp; I can store japanese data in char/varchar dat= atype, however when i try to store the same in blob datatype they are store= d as junk. The same happens for text/clob datatype too. But i can store fre= nch, german, spanish data properly in blob datatype. Can anyone help me in = this, appreciate your help.&nbsp; Thanks in advance.<BR>=0A<BR>=0ABest Rega= rds,<BR>=0A<BR>=0ALloyd=A0<BR>=0A=0A</P>=0A=0A=0A<br><br>=0A<A target=3D"_b= lank" HREF=3D"http://clients.rediff.com/signature/track_sig.asp"><IMG SRC= =3D"http://ads.rediff.com/RealMedia/ads/adstream_nx.cgi/www.rediffmail.com/= inbox.htm@Bottom" BORDER=3D0 VSPACE=3D0 HSPACE=3D0></a>=0A --Next_1089116537---0-202.54.124.151-12684 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Dear All,=0A=0AI am facing a problem of storing japanese/chinese data in bl= ob datatype. I have created a database in utf8 format to support multi-ling= ual data. I can store japanese data in char/varchar datatype, however when= i try to store the same in blob datatype they are stored as junk. The same= happens for text/clob datatype too. But i can store french, german, spanis= h data properly in blob datatype. Can anyone help me in this, appreciate yo= ur help. Thanks in advance.=0A=0ABest Regards,=0A=0ALloyd=A0=0A=0A=0A --Next_1089116537---0-202.54.124.151-12684--