Handling of binary files in interactive mode

[sharkdp]

When bat is operating in non-interactive (cat-compatibility) mode, binary files are handled fine (see #150).

However, when bat is in interactive mode (prints to a terminal), we currently just print all the content in a (lossy) UTF-8 decoded way, which is not helpful at all.

It would be great if bat could detect "binary" files (I recently wrote a small crate to do just that: https://github.com/sharkdp/content_inspector) and print a user-friendly error message / warning.

A potential nice add-on could be to print the first N bytes in hexdump style.

[sharkdp]

Released in v0.8.0

[for-coursera]

A potential nice add-on could be to print the first N bytes in hexdump style.

This isn't done, right? :)

[sharkdp]

No. If you think that should be added, please open a new ticket.