As far as I know, there's not really a good way to do this. After all,
"IBM +3.75 6% 14-3/8" would make sense to some people (well, it would if
it were really a stock quote), but doesn't fit the "English or Number"
model.
On the other hand, it is technically possible for an image (for example)
to convert to an integer in Base64.
I would guess that your best bet is to store some metadata about the
content -- maybe a "binary vs. text" flag or something.
I know that doesn't really answer your question, but I hope it helps anyway.
--Ben Doom
Chunshen (Don) Li wrote:
> OK, let's forget about the semantics here,
> if data look like "a dog is looking at a cat"
> or data look like "28233", fine;
> but else if the data look like
> JVBERi0xLjIgDQol4uPP0w0KIA
> (non-English set of data)
> do something here.
>
> The goal is, if the data is non-English like the above sample, then, not
> display it for it's quite meaningless to user.
>
> >Unless I'm confused, an image converted to base64 *is* simple data.
> >
> >What are you trying to do here?
> >
> >--Ben Doom
> >
> >Chunshen (Don) Li wrote:
> >
> >>
>
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