[ARROW-447] Python: Align scalar/pylist string encoding with pandas' one.

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.2.0
• Component/s: Python
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/16092
• Assignee: Uwe Korn
• Reporter: Uwe Korn
• Created: 29/Dec/16 10:14
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:08
• Resolved: 29/Dec/16 12:06

Description

With Python 2, currently we generate unicode strings for a column with to_pandas but generate str strings for to_pylist. This should be aligned as well as some tests with non-ASCII characters added that verify the UTF-8 roundtrip.