in reply to Re^2: Detecting 'binary' in a variable
in thread Detecting 'binary' in a variable

That's correct, but that's not the same regexp:

/^[\x00-\xA5]/
ne
/[^\x00-\xA5]/

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Re^4: Detecting 'binary' in a variable
by dbwiz (Curate) on Jul 05, 2005 at 18:31 UTC

    Sorry. My fault.

    But then, again, any text with accented vowels (à,è etc., in Italian, French, Spanish) will look like binary.

      \xA5 = 165 which should match just about everything except Greek (as per the OP's specs). Unicode not considered either.