Justus Magin

thanks for the explanation, @kmuehlbauer. I can confirm that re-encoding with `"surrogateescape"` (both `ascii` or `utf-8` work, since for single byte characters they're the same) then decoding as `utf-8` works....

I wonder whether we should try to instead find a summarizing name (`virtualizarr`, for example) instead of more specific ones like `serialize` or `write`? That way, we don't have to...

you might want to set up [temporary CI](https://joss.readthedocs.io/en/latest/paper.html#github-action) to get a preview and to verify the paper actually compiles

`xarray` doesn't support per-chunk / per-shard metadata, either, so we'd have to add a coordinate containing all the different crs.

> we want to avoid breaking changes in the next related PRs I think the idea was to merge but not expose as public API for now, so that we...

can you look at the encoding of your variables (`{n: v.encoding for n, v in ds.variables.items()}`)? I'd bet that's where this error is coming from, and if you'd clear the...

that server is known to be flaky sometimes (it's the one my local HPC / computing department is managing), so it may have been a temporary issue: I can't reproduce...

you might want to check with the scientific-python people, as far as I can tell they have something similar working for `scientific-python-nightly-wheels` and the [upload-nightly-wheels](https://github.com/scientific-python/upload-nightly-action) action. cc @matthewfeickert, in case...

I'm not sure I didn't miss anything, but I don't think `open_datatree` does support `dask` / chunking at all right now: the code of the backends does not handle /...

side-by-side is the second use-case (which I'm implementing using `GridBox`) but the most important one is combining two maps such that the layers are displayed in the same map. Ideally,...