diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 63c5b4d36..bbd0424e5 100755
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -5,6 +5,10 @@ phpMyAdmin - Changelog
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+2003-02-03 Michal Cihar  <nijel@users.sourceforge.net>
+    * libraries/display_tbl.lib.php3, tbl_change.php3: Show blob size (RFE #678729).
+    * tbl_replace_fields.php3, tbl_change.php3: Allow binary uploads.
+    
 2003-02-03 Garvin Hicking <me@supergarv.de>
     * pdf_schema.php3, libraries/dbg/profiling.php3, 
     libraries/xpath/XPath.class.php: Backwards compatibility (foreach loops)
diff --git a/tbl_replace_fields.php3 b/tbl_replace_fields.php3
index d56ead83b..3f7075caf 100755
--- a/tbl_replace_fields.php3
+++ b/tbl_replace_fields.php3
@@ -10,10 +10,17 @@
         if (isset(${"fields_upload_" . $key}) && !empty(${"fields_upload_" . $key})) {
             $data_file = ${"fields_upload_" . $key};
             $val = fread(fopen($data_file, "rb"), filesize($data_file));
-            // must always add slashes for an uploaded file:
-            //  - do not use PMA_sqlAddslashes()
-            //  - do not check get_magic_quotes_gpc()
-            $val = "'" . addslashes($val) . "'";
+            if (isset(${"fields_upload_binary_" . $key})) {
+                // nijel: This is probably the best way how to put binary data
+                // into MySQL and it also allow not to care about charset
+                // conversion that would otherwise corrupt the data.
+                $val = '0x' . bin2hex($val);
+            } else {
+                // must always add slashes for an uploaded file:
+                //  - do not use PMA_sqlAddslashes()
+                //  - do not check get_magic_quotes_gpc()
+                $val = "'" . addslashes($val) . "'";
+            }
         } else {
 
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