Find non-ASCII and UTF-8 files in the current directory

find . -type f -regex '.*\.\(cpp\|h\)' -exec file {} + | grep "UTF-8\|extended-ASCII"

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By: swarzynski
2020-09-15 09:10:02
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George1963 · 5 days ago

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