Source MySQL VARCHAR/CHAR columns with utf8mb3_bin collation are encoded as BASE64

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Hi there,
We are connecting MySQL as source connector.
In our MySQL db (type=VARCHAR, charset=utf8mb3, collation=utf8mb3_bin), then we found this column will be by default encoded as BASE64. But the expectation is still outputting string value.

it is related to usage of field.isBinary() flag in source connector, which either source mysql have wrong interpretation or field.isBinary is returning wrong value as designed because the collation is just deciding how values are compared. the column is still a string type.

To repro, just create this table in mysql db:
CREATE TABLE charset_test (
char1 VARCHAR(100) COLLATE utf8mb4_bin,
char2 VARCHAR(100) COLLATE utf8mb3_bin,
char3 VARCHAR(100) COLLATE utf8mb4_general_ci);
INSERT INTO charset_test VALUES (“utf8mb4_bin”, “utf8mb3_bin”, “utf8mb4_general_ci”);

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