This change is the outcome of discussions at the 2018 netCDF/CF Workshop meeting in Reading, UK. The proposal is to change the language of Chapter 2 to include the `string` type as a valid variable type, and to modify the description of variables containing text to include variables with a type of `string`.
The changes can be seen in pull request https://github.com/cf-convention/cf-conventions/pull/138 There is no Trac ticket because Trac is down right now. -- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/cf-convention/cf-conventions/issues/139
