#NEWLINE# def _read_string( fid , tag , shape , rlims ) : #NEWLINE# #INDENT# 'Read a string tag' #NEWLINE# d = _fromstring_rows ( fid , tag . size , dtype = '>c' , shape = shape , rlims = rlims ) #NEWLINE# return text_type ( d . tostring ( ) . decode ( 'utf-8' , 'ignore' ) )