AbstractStrings (the generic string abstraction) can have any encoding – only the standard built-in String type is UTF-8. If you've got data in another encoding

AbstractStrings (the generic string abstraction) can have any encoding – only the standard built-in String type is UTF-8. If you've got data in another encoding, use the StringEncodings [1] package to read it. [1] https://github.com/nalimilan/StringEncodings.jl https://github.com/nalimilan/StringEncodings.jl