From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2007-06-20T02:10:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Check for text file


On Jun 18, 2007, at 23:59 , Alin Popa wrote:

> After some research I still cannot find a way how to see if a file is
> plain text or binary. In fact I want to check if a file is plain  
> text no
> matter what characters are in it.

http://blog.zenspider.com/archives/2006/08/i_miss_perls_b.html