diff --git a/go/sql/types.go b/go/sql/types.go
index 6ecf75881..aac52bc32 100644
--- a/go/sql/types.go
+++ b/go/sql/types.go
@@ -53,14 +53,22 @@ type Column struct {
 }
 
 func (this *Column) convertArg(arg interface{}, isUniqueKeyColumn bool) interface{} {
+	var arg2Bytes []byte
 	if s, ok := arg.(string); ok {
-		arg2Bytes := []byte(s)
-		// convert to bytes if character string without charsetConversion.
+		arg2Bytes = []byte(s)
+	} else if b, ok := arg.([]uint8); ok {
+		arg2Bytes = b
+	} else {
+		arg2Bytes = nil
+	}
+
+	if arg2Bytes != nil {
 		if this.Charset != "" && this.charsetConversion == nil {
 			arg = arg2Bytes
 		} else {
 			if encoding, ok := charsetEncodingMap[this.Charset]; ok {
-				arg, _ = encoding.NewDecoder().String(s)
+				decodedBytes, _ := encoding.NewDecoder().Bytes(arg2Bytes)
+				arg = string(decodedBytes)
 			}
 		}
 
diff --git a/go/sql/types_test.go b/go/sql/types_test.go
index 5d71070c2..7b808e64f 100644
--- a/go/sql/types_test.go
+++ b/go/sql/types_test.go
@@ -49,3 +49,19 @@ func TestBinaryToString(t *testing.T) {
 
 	require.Equal(t, "1b99", cv.StringColumn(0))
 }
+
+func TestConvertArgCharsetDecoding(t *testing.T) {
+	latin1Bytes := []uint8{0x47, 0x61, 0x72, 0xe7, 0x6f, 0x6e, 0x20, 0x21}
+
+	col := Column{
+		Charset: "latin1",
+		charsetConversion: &CharacterSetConversion{
+			FromCharset: "latin1",
+			ToCharset:   "utf8mb4",
+		},
+	}
+
+	// Should decode []uint8
+	str := col.convertArg(latin1Bytes, false)
+	require.Equal(t, "Garçon !", str)
+}