is it a binary file?

Hi all,

is there a built in way to distinguish a binary file from a text file, such that
I can call different routines to read and process it?

Or is the only way to make a statistics about all the character codes
in the file, and treat it as a binary file if there are lots of 0x00...0x1f and
> 0x80 characters?

Regards,
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