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in reply to Re^3: Detecting 'binary' in a variable
in thread Detecting 'binary' in a variable

Sorry. My fault.

But then, again, any text with accented vowels (à,è etc., in Italian, French, Spanish) will look like binary.

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Re^5: Detecting 'binary' in a variable
by Transient (Hermit) on Jul 05, 2005 at 18:36 UTC
    \xA5 = 165 which should match just about everything except Greek (as per the OP's specs). Unicode not considered either.
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