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   Michael Sanders to Keith Thompson   
   Re: is_binary_file()   
   09 Dec 25 21:38:57   
   
   From: porkchop@invalid.foo   
      
   On Mon, 08 Dec 2025 14:43:58 -0800, Keith Thompson wrote:   
      
   > For yet another set of unreliable hueristics for guessing whether a file   
   > is text or binary, you can take a look at Perl's built-in "-T" and "-B"   
   > operators.   
      
   I guess the key finding in all of these cases really is unreliable.   
   Heuristics is the only 'constant' ie - an educated guess.   
      
   I wont win this battle, I can see it coming & then as James pointed   
   out, the ambiguous stuff with unicode...   
      
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   Mike Sanders   
      
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