diff --git a/IO/MINC/vtkMINCImageAttributes.cxx b/IO/MINC/vtkMINCImageAttributes.cxx
index 105cdaf8020..9fecbab1169 100644
--- a/IO/MINC/vtkMINCImageAttributes.cxx
+++ b/IO/MINC/vtkMINCImageAttributes.cxx
@@ -298,26 +298,33 @@ void vtkMINCImageAttributes::AddDimension(const char *dimension,
 const char *vtkMINCImageAttributes::ConvertDataArrayToString(
   vtkDataArray *array)
 {
-  const char *result = 0;
+  const char *result = "";
+  vtkIdType n = array->GetNumberOfTuples();
+  if (n == 0)
+    {
+    return result;
+    }
 
   int dataType = array->GetDataType();
-
   if (dataType == VTK_CHAR)
     {
     vtkCharArray *charArray = vtkCharArray::SafeDownCast(array);
-    result = charArray->GetPointer(0);
-    if (!result)
+    if (charArray)
       {
-      result = "";
+      result = charArray->GetPointer(0);
+      // Check to see if string has a terminal null (the null might be
+      // part of the attribute, or stored in the following byte)
+      if ((n > 0 && result[n-1] == '\0') ||
+          (charArray->GetSize() > n && result[n] == '\0'))
+        {
+        return result;
+        }
       }
-    return result;
     }
 
   std::ostringstream os;
 
-  vtkIdType n = array->GetNumberOfTuples();
-  vtkIdType i = 0;
-  for (i = 0; i < n; i++)
+  for (vtkIdType i = 0; i < n; i++)
     {
     double val = array->GetComponent(i, 0);
     if (dataType == VTK_DOUBLE || dataType == VTK_FLOAT)
@@ -344,42 +351,47 @@ const char *vtkMINCImageAttributes::ConvertDataArrayToString(
         }
       os << storage;
       }
+    else if (dataType == VTK_CHAR)
+      {
+      os.put(static_cast<char>(val));
+      }
     else
       {
       os << val;
       }
-    if (i < n-1)
+    if (i < n-1 && dataType != VTK_CHAR)
       {
       os << ", ";
       }
     }
 
-    // Store the string
-    std::string str = os.str();
+  // Store the string
+  std::string str = os.str();
 
-    if (this->StringStore == 0)
-      {
-      this->StringStore = vtkStringArray::New();
-      }
+  if (this->StringStore == 0)
+    {
+    this->StringStore = vtkStringArray::New();
+    }
 
-    // See if the string is already stored
-    n = this->StringStore->GetNumberOfValues();
-    for (i = 0; i < n; i++)
-      {
-      result = this->StringStore->GetValue(i);
-      if (strcmp(str.c_str(), result) == 0)
-        {
-        break;
-        }
-      }
-    // If not, add it to the array.
-    if (i == n)
+  // See if the string is already stored
+  vtkIdType m = this->StringStore->GetNumberOfValues();
+  vtkIdType j;
+  for (j = 0; j < m; j++)
+    {
+    result = this->StringStore->GetValue(j);
+    if (strcmp(str.c_str(), result) == 0)
       {
-      i = this->StringStore->InsertNextValue(str.c_str());
-      result = this->StringStore->GetValue(i);
+      break;
       }
+    }
+  // If not, add it to the array.
+  if (j == m)
+    {
+    j = this->StringStore->InsertNextValue(str.c_str());
+    result = this->StringStore->GetValue(j);
+    }
 
-    return result;
+  return result;
 }
 
 //-------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -888,11 +900,11 @@ void vtkMINCImageAttributes::SetAttributeValueAsString(
   size_t length = strlen(value);
 
   vtkCharArray *array = vtkCharArray::New();
-  array->SetNumberOfValues(length+1);
-  char *dest = array->GetPointer(0);
+  // Allocate an extra byte to store a null terminator.
+  array->Resize(length + 1);
+  char *dest = array->WritePointer(0, length);
   strncpy(dest, value, length);
   dest[length] = '\0';
-
   this->SetAttributeValueAsArray(variable, attribute, array);
 
   array->Delete();
diff --git a/IO/MINC/vtkMINCImageReader.cxx b/IO/MINC/vtkMINCImageReader.cxx
index 620cf9b471a..74b55b65c2c 100644
--- a/IO/MINC/vtkMINCImageReader.cxx
+++ b/IO/MINC/vtkMINCImageReader.cxx
@@ -481,11 +481,10 @@ int vtkMINCImageReader::ReadMINCFileAttributes()
           vtkCharArray *charArray = vtkCharArray::New();
           // The netcdf standard doesn't enforce null-termination
           // of string attributes, so we add a null here.
-          charArray->SetNumberOfValues(attlength+1);
-          charArray->SetValue(attlength, 0);
-          charArray->SetNumberOfValues(attlength);
-          nc_get_att_text(ncid, varid, attname,
-                          charArray->GetPointer(0));
+          charArray->Resize(attlength + 1);
+          char *dest = charArray->WritePointer(0, attlength);
+          nc_get_att_text(ncid, varid, attname, dest);
+          dest[attlength] = '\0';
           dataArray = charArray;
           }
           break;
diff --git a/IO/MINC/vtkMINCImageWriter.cxx b/IO/MINC/vtkMINCImageWriter.cxx
index 00f877dd849..89df544167f 100644
--- a/IO/MINC/vtkMINCImageWriter.cxx
+++ b/IO/MINC/vtkMINCImageWriter.cxx
@@ -498,11 +498,15 @@ nc_type vtkMINCImageWriterConvertVTKTypeToMINCType(
 }
 
 //-------------------------------------------------------------------------
-// These macro is only for use in WriteMINCFileAttributes
+// These macros are only for use in WriteMINCFileAttributes.
+
+// Note: Until VTK 7.0, this macro added a terminating null byte to all
+// text attributes.  As of VTK 7.1, it does not.  The attribute length
+// should be the string length, not the string length "plus one".
 #define vtkMINCImageWriterPutAttributeTextMacro(name, text) \
   if (status == NC_NOERR) \
     { \
-    status = nc_put_att_text(ncid, varid, name, strlen(text)+1, text); \
+    status = nc_put_att_text(ncid, varid, name, strlen(text), text); \
     }
 
 #define vtkMINCImageWriterPutAttributeDoubleMacro(name, count, ptr) \