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https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/681#issuecomment-226238810,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/681,226238810,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDIyNjIzODgxMA==,1217238,2016-06-15T16:15:05Z,2016-06-15T16:15:05Z,MEMBER,"@byersiiasa What version of netCDF4-Python are you using? This was fixed in netCDF4-Python v1.2.3.
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https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/681#issuecomment-190921447,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/681,190921447,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDE5MDkyMTQ0Nw==,1217238,2016-03-01T21:49:36Z,2016-03-01T21:49:36Z,MEMBER,"This has been fixed upstream: https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf4-python/pull/533
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https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/681#issuecomment-165547726,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/681,165547726,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDE2NTU0NzcyNg==,1217238,2015-12-17T18:57:04Z,2015-12-17T18:57:04Z,MEMBER,"Yes, I would support this change.

On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 10:43 AM, Joe Hamman notifications@github.com
wrote:

> So an alternative choice would be to attempt to always encode unicode (str
> on Python 3) attributes as ASCII when saving with netCDF4, e.g.,
> 
> Exactly what I have done in the past.
> 
> Does this seem like something we should change/fix?
> 
> —
> Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub
> https://github.com/xray/xray/issues/681#issuecomment-165543980.
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https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/681#issuecomment-165543980,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/681,165543980,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDE2NTU0Mzk4MA==,2443309,2015-12-17T18:42:36Z,2015-12-17T18:42:36Z,MEMBER,"> So an alternative choice would be to attempt to always encode unicode (str on Python 3) attributes as ASCII when saving with netCDF4, e.g.,

Exactly what I have done in the past.

Does this seem like something we should change/fix? 
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https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/681#issuecomment-165540231,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/681,165540231,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDE2NTU0MDIzMQ==,1217238,2015-12-17T18:31:08Z,2015-12-17T18:31:08Z,MEMBER,"Yes, this is probably related to the netCDF4-python change discussed here: https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf4-python/issues/388

Unfortunately, lots of older netCDF programs don't know how to interpret the netCDF4 ""string"" dtype -- and to be honest, even the netCDF-C library doesn't always properly save such data as Unicode yet, though that should be fixed in the next release (4.4.0 -- see https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/127 for more details).

So an alternative choice would be to attempt to always encode unicode (str on Python 3) attributes as ASCII when saving with netCDF4, e.g.,

``` python
def maybe_encode(string, encoding='ascii'):
    try:
        return string.encode(encoding)
    except UnicodeEncodeError:
        return string
```
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