may be this can help you too http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_Order_Mark#Representations_of_byte_order_marks_by_encoding
Am Dienstag, 22. Januar 2013 15:13:31 UTC+1 schrieb greelgorke: > > i guess only by try and error. if you want to put the content of the file > to json, you will use encoding anyway, because json is a text format. so, i > don't know what kind of data is in the files, but i would just use utf8 and > see if anything comes out of it. > > Am Dienstag, 22. Januar 2013 11:54:14 UTC+1 schrieb Vladimir Starkov: >> >> How to detect if file is text or binary using Nodejs? >> >> >> I need it to put file content in json and if file is text, I will use >> encoding parameter in fs.readFile, and if the file is binary, I will read >> it without encoding > > -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
