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rogersce / cnpy

library to read/write .npy and .npz files in C/C++
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Multiply word_size by 4 in parse_npy_header for dtype 'U' #55

Open sjmielke opened 5 years ago

sjmielke commented 5 years ago

For Unicode data, the NumPy "length" refers to characters, not bytes, specifically UCS-4/UTF-32 encoded characters, so we need 4 bytes of storage for each element.