From: Warren Young
Date: January 9 2007 12:34pm
Subject: Re: VARBINARY and VARCHAR
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Frantisek Kaduch wrote:
> 
> Can I insert binary data, it means a string of unsigned chars, with values in 
> the range 0 - 255 in the VARCHAR field ? 

See the load_file example.

Yes, it could be made to work more nicely.  If you want to help make 
that happen, see the Wishlist.  We already have the plans drawn up.