Thank you very much Andreas for the quick and accurate reply. Indeed the issue of the suggested link is pretty much the same as mine. The problem is that the file that I'm try to read is a binary file. As suggested in the link I tried readbytes.
f = open(filename) f_bytes = readbytes(f) This works and returns a binary representation of the file. Then, in order to get back a string I used f_text = ASCIIString(f_bytes) The variable f_text contains the text of the file. When I print the string f_text the unicode characters ° are not displayed correctly but the remaining text is correct and this is enough for me at the moment. Thank you again, Alberto Il giorno domenica 24 gennaio 2016 15:03:03 UTC+1, Andreas Lobinger ha scritto: > > Hello colleague, > > i think i once had a similar problem. > https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/12764 > > Wishing a happy day, > Andreas > >
