There is a library in one of the Go subrepositories that handles transformation from other encodings to UTF-8: https://code.google.com/p/go/source/browse?repo=t

There is a library in one of the Go subrepositories that handles transformation from other encodings to UTF-8: https://code.google.com/p/go/source/browse?repo=text#hg%2Fencoding https://code.google.com/p/go/source/browse?repo=text#hg%2Fen... If you're expecting to get data in other other encodings you could put together some detection and transformation at the point of ingress and convert to UTF-8 encoded text for the rest of your application.