On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 11:53 AM, Robert Kern <robert.k...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't know of a format off-hand that works with numpy uniform-length > strings and Unicode as well. HDF5 (to my recollection) supports arrays of > NULL-terminated, uniform-length ASCII like FITS, but only variable-length > UTF8 strings. > HDF5 supports two character sets, ASCII and UTF-8. Both come in fixed and variable length versions: https://github.com/PyTables/PyTables/issues/499 https://support.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/Advanced/UsingUnicode/index.html "Fixed length UTF-8" for HDF5 refers to the number of bytes used for storage, not the number of characters.
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