diff --git a/manifest b/manifest
index 9c0d6e0773..80e49170d6 100644
--- a/manifest
+++ b/manifest
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-C Alternative\simplementation\sof\sexprCompareVariable().\s\sNeed\sto\srun\stests\son\nboth\sthis\sbranch\sand\sthe\soriginal\sto\ssee\swhich\sone\sto\sgo\swith.
-D 2017-06-28T21:47:16.657
+C Fix\sthe\sexprCompareVariable()\sroutine\sso\sthat\sit\sworks\sfor\snon-UTF8\stext.
+D 2017-06-29T01:23:12.291
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@@ -359,7 +359,7 @@ F src/ctime.c e9a6db1321c2353fe922533f202b85abb3084cdf569450abcabf55e21e104550
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 F src/delete.c 3213547e97b676c6fa79948b7a9ede4801ea04a01a2043241deafedf132ecf5d
-F src/expr.c 8281b9e5b88862176862c614acda20fdeb85c20143c5125cee4efd2893c1a64e
+F src/expr.c cc024ddd19aa37b6672caedab90e2a5ec69a4a1a97da94c2f1a0bd81cf0cd922
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@@ -1585,10 +1585,7 @@ F vsixtest/vsixtest.tcl 6a9a6ab600c25a91a7acc6293828957a386a8a93
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-R d8af740d34bab1193c95ada6cd028712
-T *branch * partial-index-variables-v2
-T *sym-partial-index-variables-v2 *
-T -sym-partial-index-variables *
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+R 12b2a850985daf065d11c67446406f71
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-Z 929717708efb4b9fc1714d496de51de5
+Z c02c38fdab65d893d3a1e810ddd8aa5b
diff --git a/manifest.uuid b/manifest.uuid
index e1a8d56d9b..58b71185be 100644
--- a/manifest.uuid
+++ b/manifest.uuid
@@ -1 +1 @@
-b959c6297c151150ea2dca24aa1f68f3bd76dd6620eb6c03f8dfa59fdd5c13b2
\ No newline at end of file
+25acd9658be792d686b3ebfaa8c3692f9830e043538ed0afecf97110a07758a4
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/expr.c b/src/expr.c
index 0443195640..fc24ffbe06 100644
--- a/src/expr.c
+++ b/src/expr.c
@@ -4683,8 +4683,11 @@ static int exprCompareVariable(Parse *pParse, Expr *pVar, Expr *pExpr){
     iVar = pVar->iColumn;
     sqlite3VdbeSetVarmask(pParse->pVdbe, iVar);
     pL = sqlite3VdbeGetBoundValue(pParse->pReprepare, iVar, SQLITE_AFF_BLOB);
-    if( pL && 0==sqlite3MemCompare(pL, pR, 0) ){
-      res = 1;
+    if( pL ){
+      if( sqlite3_value_type(pL)==SQLITE_TEXT ){
+        sqlite3_value_text(pL); /* Make sure the encoding is UTF-8 */
+      }
+      res =  0==sqlite3MemCompare(pL, pR, 0);
     }
     sqlite3ValueFree(pR);
     sqlite3ValueFree(pL);