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Another obscure difference is how some daemons transfer files. Take FTP, for example. When you transfer files using ASCII mode line-termination characters are converted from the host (server) platform to the client platform automatically. This isn't transcoding (coverting encodings) but changing the way line-terminate and new-line characters are handled on the target platform. In BINARY mode the file is downloaded as-is.

Another thing typically of text files is a byte order mark, or BOM. ANSI files (ASCII characters are the first 127 bits) are 1 byte characters and multi-byte files derive from ANSI and may be up to 4 bytes. This is similar to UTF-8 which is a multi-byte standard. Unicode is either 2 byte or 4 byte characters (UCS-16 and UCS-32). Crazy, huh? How do you tell the difference?

Enter BOMs. ANSI files won't have them (no standard is defined anyway), but UTF-7, UTF-8, and Unicode files will have BOMs to help application like web browsers identify the encoding so the characters can be displayed correctly. Browsers and other application may also employ heuristics to guess the encoding if not explicitly mentioned (in browsers the encoding is described in HTTP headers or META tags in the content).

Binary files are what they are - a stream of bits that you interpret as the bits themselves - no encoding, no new-line or line-termination characters, no BOM...just as-is data.

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