Re: [h5md-user] String encoding

[Peter Colberg]

On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 11:06:02AM +0100, Pierre de Buyl wrote:
> In this case, I am confident that h5py will be fixed to handle such 
> situations 
> and that the broader compatibility of fixed-length strings is worth the 
> restriction.

Ok, then there is no impact on the file format.

Pierre, could you tag 1.0.0?

In revision 1.0.1 I would like to point out that, unless otherwise
stated, strings may be encoded either in ASCII or UTF-8. This should
be pointed out explicitly, since a string datatype of one encoding
cannot be read using a string datatype of the other encoding.

Peter