How to identify binary vs ASCII file???

Hello,
What is the best way to decide whether a file is binary or plain text?
Thanks in advance.
Chris.

Other than passing through the bytes, check that there are no bytes that you wouldn't usually have in a text file and pray that the file isn't in an "exotic" character encoding such as utf8?
There is no real difference. Both "binary" and "text" files contain bytes.

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