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
>
>

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