diff --git a/packages/client-common/__tests__/integration/data_types.test.ts b/packages/client-common/__tests__/integration/data_types.test.ts
index ebd86298b..b5bcd0f60 100644
--- a/packages/client-common/__tests__/integration/data_types.test.ts
+++ b/packages/client-common/__tests__/integration/data_types.test.ts
@@ -96,7 +96,6 @@ describe("data types", () => {
       }),
     );
   });
-
   it("should work with decimals", async () => {
     const row1 = {
       id: 1,
diff --git a/packages/client-node/__tests__/integration/node_insert_binary_string.test.ts b/packages/client-node/__tests__/integration/node_insert_binary_string.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9d672fd64
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/client-node/__tests__/integration/node_insert_binary_string.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+import type { ClickHouseClient } from "@clickhouse/client-common";
+import { describe, it, beforeEach, afterEach, expect } from "vitest";
+import { createTableWithFields } from "@test/fixtures/table_with_fields";
+import { createTestClient } from "@test/utils/client";
+
+// Minimal reproduction for https://github.com/ClickHouse/clickhouse-js/issues/837
+// Inserting raw binary buffer data into a String/FixedString field via
+// JSONEachRow does not work: the JSON value is interpreted as UTF-8 text, so
+// any byte >= 0x80 is re-encoded into a multi-byte UTF-8 sequence. For a
+// FixedString this overflows the declared size (TOO_LARGE_STRING_SIZE), and
+// even for a plain String the stored bytes no longer match the original ones.
+describe("[Node.js] insert binary buffer into String/FixedString (#837)", () => {
+  let client: ClickHouseClient;
+  beforeEach(() => {
+    client = createTestClient();
+  });
+  afterEach(async () => {
+    await client.close();
+  });
+
+  it("cannot insert raw binary buffer data into FixedString via JSONEachRow", async () => {
+    const table = await createTableWithFields(client, "fs FixedString(2)");
+    // Two bytes that fit into FixedString(2) as raw bytes, but each 0xF0 byte
+    // becomes 0xC3 0xB0 once re-encoded as UTF-8 text, overflowing the field.
+    const binary = Buffer.from([0xf0, 0xf0]);
+    await expect(
+      client.insert({
+        table,
+        values: [{ fs: binary.toString("binary") }],
+        format: "JSONEachRow",
+      }),
+    ).rejects.toMatchObject(
+      expect.objectContaining({
+        type: "TOO_LARGE_STRING_SIZE",
+        message: expect.stringContaining("Too large value for FixedString(2)"),
+      }),
+    );
+  });
+
+  it("silently corrupts binary buffer data inserted into String via JSONEachRow", async () => {
+    const table = await createTableWithFields(client, "s String");
+    const binary = Buffer.from([0xf0, 0xf0]);
+    await client.insert({
+      table,
+      values: [{ id: 1, s: binary.toString("binary") }],
+      format: "JSONEachRow",
+    });
+    const [{ stored }] = await client
+      .query({
+        query: `SELECT hex(s) AS stored FROM ${table}`,
+        format: "JSONEachRow",
+      })
+      .then((r) => r.json<{ stored: string }>());
+    // The original bytes were F0F0, but `toString("binary")` maps each byte to
+    // a Latin-1 code point that is then re-encoded as UTF-8 on the way in
+    // (0xF0 -> U+00F0 -> 0xC3 0xB0), so the round-tripped value no longer
+    // matches the input buffer.
+    expect(stored).not.toBe("F0F0");
+    expect(stored).toBe("C3B0C3B0");
+  });
+});