diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index eec8fb8be..888316417 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ $HeadURL: https://phpmyadmin.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/phpmyadmin/trunk/phpMyA
 - bug #1614004 [relation] foreign key spanning multiple columns are
   incorrectly displayed
 - bug #1681598 [interface] Edit next row
+- bug #1688053 [export] Wrong export of binary character fields
 + [core] added PMA_fatalError() and made use of it
 . [core] added PMA_isValid() and PMA_ifSetOr() for variable handling
 . [i18n] use generic $strOptions
diff --git a/libraries/export/sql.php b/libraries/export/sql.php
index 21d18c167..c19aa47d0 100644
--- a/libraries/export/sql.php
+++ b/libraries/export/sql.php
@@ -844,7 +844,12 @@ function PMA_exportData($db, $table, $crlf, $error_url, $sql_query)
                     if (empty($row[$j]) && $row[$j] != '0') {
                         $values[] = '\'\'';
                     } else {
-                        $values[] = '0x' . bin2hex($row[$j]);
+                        if ($fields_meta[$j]->blob) {
+                            $values[] = '0x' . bin2hex($row[$j]);
+                        // to support for example a latin1_bin 
+                        } else {
+                            $values[] = 'CONVERT(0x' . bin2hex($row[$j]) . ' USING UTF8)';
+                        }
                     }
                 // something else -> treat as a string
                 } else {