Convert cluster to readable string and string to data, but not UTF-8?

[wiebe@CARYA]

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@paul_a_cardinale wrote:

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And even if so (data to string), is there a way to write the text back to a variant (string to data)?

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Why would you need to do that?  Just use the original data.

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You'd need that if you store the text in a (human readable) file or database, or transfer it as text for other reasons.

You could use JSON or XML for this, but serializing is never going to be easy.

As I understand, the MGI solution is pretty much an OoTB solution.

I'd try to keep the data binary, but sometimes you simply want strings.