ENH: Enable pytables to round-trip with StringDtype #21256

Job	Run time
Linux-32-bit	19m 4s
Pyodide build	24m 39s
Linux-Musl	20m 58s
python-freethreading	22m 56s
python-dev (macOS-13)	21m 13s
python-dev (macOS-14)	9m 33s
python-dev (ubuntu-22.04)	20m 10s
python-dev (windows-latest)	23m 10s
macos-13 actions-310.yaml	28m 27s
macos-13 actions-311.yaml	27m 16s
macos-13 actions-312.yaml	26m 2s
macos-14 actions-310.yaml	17m 41s
macos-14 actions-311.yaml	16m 6s
macos-14 actions-312.yaml	17m 32s
windows-latest actions-311.yaml	38m 15s
windows-latest actions-312.yaml	43m 36s
windows-latest actions-310.yaml	34m 44s
ubuntu-latest actions-310.yaml	45m 35s
Minimum Versions	23m 19s
ubuntu-latest actions-311.yaml	40m 42s
Future infer strings (without pyarrow)	37m 42s
Locale: zh_CN	23m 6s
Locale: it_IT	23m 21s
Downstream Compat	5m 34s
Numpy Dev	16m 26s
Pyarrow Nightly	19m 15s
ubuntu-latest actions-312.yaml	45m 4s
Future infer strings	47m 21s
Pypy	1m 8s
	12h 19m 55s

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