Backport PR #60333 on branch 2.3.x (BUG (string dtype): fix handling of string dtype in interchange protocol) #20475

Job	Run time
Linux-32-bit	20m 1s
Linux-Musl	18m 2s
macos-13 actions-310.yaml	32m 24s
macos-13 actions-311.yaml	30m 20s
macos-13 actions-312.yaml	35m 24s
macos-13 actions-39.yaml	33m 55s
macos-14 actions-310.yaml	21m 44s
macos-14 actions-311.yaml	23m 13s
macos-14 actions-312.yaml	23m 19s
windows-latest actions-311.yaml	40m 23s
windows-latest actions-312.yaml	44m 32s
macos-14 actions-39.yaml	24m 55s
windows-latest actions-310.yaml	39m 8s
windows-latest actions-39.yaml	34m 4s
python-dev (macOS-13)	31m 35s
python-dev (macOS-14)	13m 45s
python-dev (ubuntu-22.04)	23m 29s
python-dev (windows-latest)	26m 18s
Copy-on-Write 3.10 (warnings)	27m 54s
ubuntu-latest actions-310.yaml	52m 39s
Copy-on-Write 3.10	27m 22s
ubuntu-latest actions-311.yaml	48m 45s
Future infer strings (without pyarrow)	46m 47s
Locale: zh_CN	27m 33s
Copy-on-Write 3.11	26m 24s
Copy-on-Write 3.11 (warnings)	26m 45s
Locale: it_IT	26m 37s
Downstream Compat	5m 50s
Numpy Dev	22m 11s
Pyarrow Nightly	23m 1s
ubuntu-latest actions-312.yaml	38m 40s
Future infer strings	39m 2s
ubuntu-latest actions-39.yaml	50m 53s
Copy-on-Write 3.12	30m 36s
Copy-on-Write 3.9 (warnings)	27m 53s
Copy-on-Write 3.9	28m 26s
Minimum Versions	28m 10s
Pypy	8m 2s
	18h 50m 1s

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