Created an umbrella issue for this because it has come up several times in different contexts, but we never got around to it. * https://github.com/SciTools/iris/issues/4101 * https://github.com/SciTools/iris/issues/4412 * https://github.com/SciTools/iris/issues/5362 * https://github.com/SciTools/iris/issues/4502 (this one is a minor issue) * https://github.com/SciTools/iris/issues/5125 See also : https://github.com/pp-mo/ncdata/issues/111 From what I've seen, the current situation is that "standard" CF-approved character-array variables ... * don't read correctly, i.e. as character arrays with a string dimension), but instead as string (object) arrays * ... and then don't **_save_** correctly, i.e. back to character arrays, but instead as variable-length netcdf "string" type * ... which, of course, at present won't read back at all -- see #6149 --- ( This has recently re-emerged in a query on ncdata https://github.com/pp-mo/ncdata/issues/111 From @znichollscr -- possibly not the same as @znicholls ??? )
Created an umbrella issue for this
because it has come up several times in different contexts, but we never got around to it.
See also : https://github.com/pp-mo/ncdata/issues/111
From what I've seen, the current situation is that "standard" CF-approved character-array variables ...
( This has recently re-emerged in a query on ncdata
https://github.com/pp-mo/ncdata/issues/111
From @znichollscr -- possibly not the same as @znicholls ???
)