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/2219#issuecomment-395617267,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/2219,395617267,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDM5NTYxNzI2Nw==,1217238,2018-06-08T01:31:07Z,2018-06-08T01:31:07Z,MEMBER,"It looks like this version works: ``` xarray.Dataset({'x': ['foo', 'bar', 'baz']}).to_netcdf( 'foo.nc', engine='h5netcdf', encoding={'x': {'dtype': 'S1', 'zlib': True, 'chunksizes': (2, 3)}}) ``` I suppose we could update chunksizes to accept both versions? Or just clearly document this behavior?","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,330473082