Should we standardize bed files?

[khoroshevskyi]

While I wanted to create bigbed file I got error:

Should we standardize bedfiles? Or what should we do in this case?

Related file: https://bedbase.org/bed/ba3e096f7ed69774a9bba86b5036e761

[nsheff]

This will become easier when the sequence collections standard is finished. I need another month or so of work on that before we can solve this. Can you just ignore them for a few weeks and then revisit when that project is a bit more mature?

[donaldcampbelljr]

Another thing to consider, discovered during #60, is that some bed files have utf-16 encodings not utf-8. Should we attempt to convert them to utf8? What are the consequences of doing that?