This ticket tracks the work to support casting to/from DictionaryArray's, (my usecase is DictionaryArray's with a Utf8 dictionary).
There is prototype work on https://github.com/alamb/arrow/tree/alamb/datafusion-string-dictionary
Reporter: Andrew Lamb / @alamb
Assignee: Andrew Lamb / @alamb
PRs and other links:
Note: This issue was originally created as ARROW-10164. Please see the migration documentation for further details.