Flink CDC Connection to TiDB Output Garbled Issue

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Original topic: Flink CDC 连接 TiDB 输出乱码问题

| username: Peiqi

[Test Environment for TiDB] Testing
[TiDB Version] v5.4.0
[Reproduction Path] According to the Flink CDC documentation, connect to TiDB via API, and the data displayed is garbled.

What I want to know is whether there is a way to convert this format back to the original data.

[Attachment: Screenshot/Log/Monitoring]

| username: zhangyangyu | Original post link

Flink CDC is not maintained by PingCAP, you can also check the issue list of Flink CDC.