Perhaps try node-mmmagic: https://github.com/mscdex/mmmagic
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 6:14 AM, greelgorke <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- 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
