JdbcRowSet does not convert getBytes to UTF8 like the MySQL connector

The Mariadb connector and the MySQL JDBC connector return different results for JdbcRowSet.getBytes(column). The MySQL connector converts the bytes to UTF-8 and the Mariadb connector does not. I had to add

bytes = new String(bytes, "UTF-8").getBytes();

to get the same results.

The JdbcRs.getCharacterStream(column) does convert the results to UTF-8.