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Clarification that text-valued variables and attributes can be Unicode strings or UTF-8 char arrays #556

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See issue #141 for discussion of these changes.

Release checklist

  • [NA] Authors updated in cf-conventions.adoc? Add in two places: on line 3 and under .Additional Authors in About the authors.
  • [Y] history.adoc up to date?
  • [Y] Conformance document up to date?

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See my comment in #141

I understand why you think it's not necessary to specify the endowing for var-len strings, but I don't see why you think it's. a bad idea to do so.

The rules are not any different for strings and char arrays, why make the language look like they are?

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