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https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/7328#issuecomment-1330343446,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/7328,1330343446,IC_kwDOAMm_X85PS24W,85085,2022-11-29T09:36:10Z,2022-11-29T09:37:19Z,CONTRIBUTOR,"This behaviour stems from this part of `_infer_dtype` where empty object arrays are converted to float arrays:

https://github.com/pydata/xarray/blob/3aa75c8d00a4a2d4acf10d80f76b937cadb666b7/xarray/conventions.py#L156-L157

Is there any reason we couldn't `return strings.create_vlen_dtype(str)` instead?","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,1466586967