RE: Text or binary attachment

"'Skand Bhargava' [email protected] [blat]" <[email protected]> Wed, 15 Oct 2014 14:56:09 +0400

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This question has always intrigued me: what harm will it do if all attached files are treated as binary?

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Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2014 1:35 PM
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Subject: [blat] Text or binary attachment

  How can I automatically decide if an attachment is text or binary? Usually I read some bytes from the beginning of the attachment file and check for occurence of zero byte. If it is found it will be attached in binary mode else text mode. This way 16-bit Unicode text files (containing zero bytes) are sent as binary attachment. Is it really necessary to distinguisj between text and binary mode?