html_url,issue_url,id,node_id,user,created_at,updated_at,author_association,body,reactions,performed_via_github_app,issue 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? ","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,122776511