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https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/1193#issuecomment-270763249 https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/1193 270763249 MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDI3MDc2MzI0OQ== 1217238 2017-01-05T21:30:51Z 2017-01-05T21:30:51Z MEMBER

This looks like a bug to me.

The simplest thing would be to ensure that we never try to view the array with dtype='S0' (which is not valid). So some sort of special case for a size-zero trailing dimension in char_to_string is probably the right approach.

 
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