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Of course you can mitigate this somewhat yourself by excluding known binary types, e.g. exe, obj, o, etc. using the `!` operator in the _Filters_ box. I don't know that...

@mere-human said >Do you want something similar to what grep does for binary files? What are your suggestions for how to specify something like this in the Notepad++ UI ?

@mere-human >Search binary files Seems brief and to-the-point ... I like it. Is "binary" a well-known enough term, among unsophisticated users? Would "Search non-text files" be better? (not sure even...

@mere-human After the discussion, the winner (at least in my view), is the original `Search binary files`. :-)

@mere-human >When the chunk of the file is decoded to a string, its length doesn't correspond to the byte length (considering wide char) or the decoding fails. Would you do...

@mere-human Are you wanting to take this on? I could assign you. :-) Best wait for a @donho go/no-go, though.

>We can filter out some commonly known binary extensions like .exe, .dll, .mp4, etc. Also, this could be a separate feature - "exclude extensions". I wonder if the binary known...

>But in this issue, I'd rather concentrate on a single checkbox Search binary files, and the detection of binary files. Well, you were the one that got me talking way...

Related? : #5102 #7674 #8380

Also possibly related: https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/20077/through-the-title-bar