On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 10:36 AM, Neal Becker <ndbeck...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm no unicode expert, but can't we truncate unicode strings so that only > valid characters are included? > sure -- it's just a bit fiddly -- and you need to make sure that everything gets passed through the proper mechanism. numpy is all about folks using other code to mess with the bytes in a numpy array. so we can't expect that all numpy string arrays will have been created with numpy code. Does python's string have a truncated encode option? i.e. you don't want to encode to utf-8 and then just chop it off. -CHB -- Christopher Barker, Ph.D. Oceanographer Emergency Response Division NOAA/NOS/OR&R (206) 526-6959 voice 7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception chris.bar...@noaa.gov
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