The Avro and parquet viewer and Parquet loader plugins are diplaying String values in numeric form, although they are stored as text using Polars/Pyarrow engine .

pyarrow 20.0.0

pyarrow-hotfix 0.7

polars 1.35.2

polars-runtime-32 1.35.2

String values are displayed correctly as text when parquet file is accessed and displayed in terminal output and tkinter ui .

Ticker dtype: String
date dtype: Date
Sample Ticker: CANADIAN_DOLLAR
Sample date: 2026-06-16