Adding encoding option setting for reading fcs files

eyurtsev / fcsparser

A python parser for reading fcs files supporting FCS 2.0, 3.0, 3.1

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Closed xiamaz closed 6 years ago

xiamaz commented 6 years ago

Created to support reading some data with latin-1 encoding.

eyurtsev commented 6 years ago

Thanks for the PR I'll review and merge over the weekend

If you can, please yell at whoever created the original FCS files --

The official FCS spec only allows utf-8 encoding. Latin-1 encoded FCS files are not valid fcs files strictly speaking