"zeros" matrix of UTF8String is hard to create

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when trying to initialize an array of UTF8Strings to "", I came across the following problem:

julia> zeros(UTF8String,1)
1-element Array{ASCIIString,1}:
 ""

Somehow the zero string is converted to ASCIIString.

julia> typeof(zeros(UTF8String,1))
Array{ASCIIString,1}

Should it not be the case that an invariant of the following should hold:

typeof(zeros(T,n))==Array{T,1}

I ended up using an uninitialized array.

Is this an issue to report or is it a logical result?

asked 2 mins ago

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