@martinjuckes - I don't see that the NUG allows for `string` coordinate 
variables. It explicitly mentions `char` in the coordinate variable context but 
does not mention the `string` type. (It uses the word "string" but I believe 
that is a hold over from before netCDF-4 and is just a shorthand reference to 
the use of `char` arrays to hold strings.)  It also mentions that all the 
values of a string-valued coordinate variable "must be unique". I think that is 
the NUG's string version of monotonicity.

Where in CF is `string x(x)` or `char x(x,l)` explicitly disallowed? I haven't 
found it yet.

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