From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-04-17T14:08:53+09:00
Subject: Re: How to test for text file

Hi,

In message "How to test for text file"
    on 03/04/17, "Peter B. Ensch" <pNOeterSPAM4MEbe@attbi.com> writes:

|In perl, -T <file> returns true if <file> is a text file and
|-B <file> returns true if <file> is binary.

You have to define what is text file first.  Traditional Perl test
does not work for Japanese text (nor Unicode text).

							matz.