So, getting back to this issue, I like @ChrisBarker-NOAA's idea of stating that string variables (and attributes too, but I'll talk about that in #141) should be treated as utf-8 and that char variables are to be restricted to ASCII (or perhaps latin-1). If there is demand, we could open a new ticket to add an 'encoding' attribute for other cases, but I feel like we could leave that sleeping dog lie for now.
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