Working with UTF-8 strings

Julia supports handling UTF-8 strings. However, the way you work with them is slightly different from such languages as R or Python. In this recipe, you will discover more about the String and SubString types, as well as the correct method of indexing into a string in Julia.

We will learn this by parsing a file containing the word Hello, written in different languages.

Getting ready

In this recipe we will work with text stored in the file hello.txt that has the following contents as shown in the following screenshot:

Note

Some terminals, in particular, the standard Windows terminal started by cmd, might have problems with displaying some of the characters in this recipe. If you encounter such a problem then we recommend you to either uses Juno, ConEmu (under Windows) or terminal in-built into Vim 8.1.1. We have tested that in these three environments all characters display correctly if you make them use a font that supports an appropriate range of Unicode. Such a font...