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                                            nmcdonnell-kx

Separate nulls for nested char arrays and symbols.

I think it should be possible to have separate null mappings when writing utf8+kdb symbol vs utf8+kdb string. However, when reading back, utf8 are always decoded as strings so would...

how can we get symbols to be written as dictionary encoded strings

Yeah, that's a tricky one One simple solution would be to have an option to decode utf8 as symbols but it would apply to all columns in the table which...

how can we get symbols to be written as dictionary encoded strings

I agree that dictionary utf8 values as symbol is a reasonable use case. However, I'm not sure it could be the default - generally users don't like decoding to symbols...