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https://github.com/pydata/xarray/pull/1528#issuecomment-347351224 https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/1528 347351224 MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDM0NzM1MTIyNA== 1217238 2017-11-27T22:32:47Z 2017-11-28T07:51:31Z MEMBER

Overall, I find the conventions module to be a bit unwieldy. There is a lot of stuff in there, not all of which is related to CF conventions. It would be useful to separate the actual conventions from the encoding / decoding needed for different backends.

Agreed!

I wonder why zarr doesn't have a UTF-8 variable length string type (https://github.com/alimanfoo/zarr/issues/206) -- that would feel like the obvious first choice for encoding this data.

That said, xarary should be able to use fixed-length bytes just fine, doing UTF-8 encoding/decoding on the fly.

 
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