API: Remove the compatibility code and use of chararray in io.fits
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Description
This is a follow-up of
* #3862
As planned in https://github.com/astropy/astropy/pull/19267#issuecomment-3936151085 .
The `chararray` stuff was deprecated in v8.0 and should be removed in v9.0. Do not merge a PR for this until `main` is marked for `v9.0.dev`.
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