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| HDF5 Last Updated on 2025-11-11 The HDF5 Field Guide

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String Creation Properties
Property Lists (H5P)

## Detailed Description

Currently, there are only two creation properties that you can use to control the creation of HDF5 attributes and links. The first creation property, the choice of a character encoding, applies to both attributes and links. The second creation property applies to links only, and advises the library to automatically create missing intermediate groups when creating new objects.

String creation property list functions (H5P)
Function | Purpose
--- | ---
H5Pset_char_encoding/H5Pget_char_encoding | Sets/gets the character encoding used to encode link and attribute names.

## Topics
| Attribute Creation Properties
| Link Creation Properties