title: Sequelize return String type column value as Buffer array (MariaDB)
body: <p>I'm using sequelize(<a href="http://docs.sequelizejs.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://docs.sequelizejs.com/</a>) as ORM library in my node.js project.</p>
  
  <p>DBMS is MariaDB (10.1.13-MariaDB - MariaDB Server)</p>
  
  <p>The problem is, all VARCHAR and CHAR type column value returned as Buffer Array.
  <a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/jhZfR.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/jhZfR.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
  
  <p>Table Structure is like this.
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  <p>Model file is looks like this.
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  <p>I don't know what I did wrong.</p>
  
  <p>This is what I expect.</p>
  
  <p>"user_id" : "asdfff"</p>
  
  <p>"email_address" : "asdf@asdf.com"</p>
  
  <p>...</p>