# String encodings help

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/string-encodings-help/8188>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Created:** [January 5, 2018, 9:10pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/string-encodings-help/8188 "2018-01-05T21:10:11Z")\
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I’m mistaken… anything other than US-ASCII would have to be converted to UTF-8 somehow. Just found a great post from before.

> [@Readstring encoding](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/readstring-encoding/4245):
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> Just got a project with quite a few iso8859-1 encoded files. Is there a concise way to readstring a given file in Julia that is not utf-8? UPDATED: forgot about StringEncodings.jl

@ScottPJones, is your neat conversion utility already in a package or something that I can reuse?

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