binaryornot
===========
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A Rust port of [binaryornot](https://github.com/audreyr/binaryornot),
letting you detect whether a file is binary or text.
## Usage
Add the following to your `cargo.toml`:
```toml
[dependencies]
binaryornot = "1.0"
```
```rust
use binaryornot;
if binaryornot::is_binary("/path/to/some/file").expect("unable to read file") {
println!("a binary!");
}
```
## Limitations
Due to relying on the encoding crate for detecting different possible
text encodings, UTF-32 will not be correctly detected as text, unlike
in the original Python binaryornot implementation.
## Licence
As indicated in the cargo.toml, this library can be consumed either under
the MIT or Apache 2.0 licences. However, it should be noted that one of
its dependencies, chardet, is licenced under the LGPL, meaning that any
program statically linking it must also be distributed under the LGPL.