Encoding UTF16 JSONs as UTF8

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I have a Jason I am getting with http.get. However, the Jason is encoded in UTF16 and I believe this is preventing it from being parsed correctly. what is the fasI am wondering what the best way to get, encode from UTF16 to UTF8, and finally parse it?

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Have you seen the transcode function?

help?> transcode
search: transcode

  transcode(T, src)

  Convert string data between Unicode encodings. src is either a String or a
  Vector{UIntXX} of UTF-XX code units, where XX is 8, 16, or 32. T indicates the
  encoding of the return value: String to return a (UTF-8 encoded) String or UIntXX to
  return a Vector{UIntXX} of UTF-XX data. (The alias Cwchar_t can also be used as the
  integer type, for converting wchar_t* strings used by external C libraries.)

  The transcode function succeeds as long as the input data can be reasonably
  represented in the target encoding; it always succeeds for conversions between UTF-XX
  encodings, even for invalid Unicode data.

  Only conversion to/from UTF-8 is currently supported.
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Thank you