=== modified file 'src/com/mysql/jdbc/StringUtils.java'
--- src/com/mysql/jdbc/StringUtils.java	2014-05-15 16:27:30 +0000
+++ src/com/mysql/jdbc/StringUtils.java	2014-07-02 19:52:33 +0000
@@ -2064,7 +2064,7 @@
 		
 		Charset cs = findCharset(encoding);
 
-		ByteBuffer buf = cs.encode(CharBuffer.wrap(value.toCharArray(), offset, offset + length));
+		ByteBuffer buf = cs.encode(CharBuffer.wrap(value, offset, offset + length));
 
 		// can't simply .array() this to get the bytes
 		// especially with variable-length charsets the