From defb93ee2af65d2bf1d134279fffa014b3da9af6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David A Minton <daminton@purdue.edu>
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2021 14:38:09 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Completed clean_string_values function.

---
 python/swiftest/swiftest/io.py | 7 +++----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/python/swiftest/swiftest/io.py b/python/swiftest/swiftest/io.py
index 85d99d4f6..1eb8df95e 100644
--- a/python/swiftest/swiftest/io.py
+++ b/python/swiftest/swiftest/io.py
@@ -721,11 +721,10 @@ def clean_string_values(param, ds):
  
     Returns
     -------
-    dscleanstring : xarray dataset with the strings cleaned up
+    ds : xarray dataset with the strings cleaned up
     """  
-
-    dscleanstring = ds 
-    return dscleanstring
+    ds['name'] =  ds['name'].str.decode(encoding='utf-8')
+    return ds
 
 
 def swiftest_particle_stream(f):