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152152 * 'string' type variables contain a variable-length unicode string at each array element.
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154154 * 'char' type variables contain one-byte characters, and generally have a fixed-length
155- "string dimension". If they contain *only * ascii character values, this is
156- uncomplicated, but they may also be used to contain non-ascii data (i.e.
157- including unicode characters). There is no universally defined agreement on how
158- to indicate a variable containing non-ascii data, but many datasets have used a
159- suitable ``_Encoding `` attribute.
155+ "string dimension". If they contain *only * ascii character values, this is
156+ uncomplicated, but they may also be used to contain non-ascii data (i.e.
157+ including unicode characters). There is no universally defined agreement on how
158+ to indicate a variable containing non-ascii data, but many datasets have used a
159+ suitable ``_Encoding `` attribute.
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161161The NetCDF documentation also mentions that an ``_Encoding `` attribute may be used to
162162represent non-ascii strings in a 'char' type array. However this is described as
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