diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index af5d92b5..37cb96a1 100644
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 name = "UnROOT"
 uuid = "3cd96dde-e98d-4713-81e9-a4a1b0235ce9"
 authors = ["Tamas Gal", "Jerry Ling", "Johannes Schumann", "Nick Amin"]
-version = "0.10.31"
+version = "0.10.32"
 
 [deps]
 AbstractTrees = "1520ce14-60c1-5f80-bbc7-55ef81b5835c"
diff --git a/src/root.jl b/src/root.jl
index a65f5659..4070e288 100644
--- a/src/root.jl
+++ b/src/root.jl
@@ -247,6 +247,11 @@ function interped_data(rawdata, rawoffsets, ::Type{Bool}, ::Type{Nojagg})
     # specialized case to get Vector{Bool} instead of BitVector
     return map(ntoh,reinterpret(Bool, rawdata))
 end
+function interped_data(rawdata, rawoffsets, ::Type{String}, ::Type{Nojagg})
+    rawoffsets .= rawoffsets .+ 1
+    vov_bytes = VectorOfVectors(rawdata, rawoffsets)
+    return [readtype(IOBuffer(v), String) for v in vov_bytes]
+end
 function interped_data(rawdata, rawoffsets, ::Type{T}, ::Type{J}) where {T, J<:JaggType}
     # there are two possibility, one is the leaf is just normal leaf but the title has "[...]" in it
     # magic offsets, seems to be common for a lot of types, see auto.py in uproot3
@@ -481,12 +486,16 @@ function leaf_jaggtype(leaf, _jaggtype)
             _fTitle = replace(leaf.fTitle, "[$(leafLen)]" => "")
             # looking for more `[var]`
             m = match(r"\[\D+\]", _fTitle)
-            _type = FixLenVector{Int(leafLen), _type}
+            _vtype = FixLenVector{Int(leafLen), _type}
             if isnothing(m)
-                return _type, Nojagg
+                if leaf isa TLeafC
+                    return String, Nojagg
+                else
+                    return _vtype, Nojagg
+                end
             else
                 #FIXME this only handles [var][fix] case
-                return Vector{_type}, Nooffsetjagg
+                return Vector{_vtype}, Nooffsetjagg
             end
         end
         _type = _jaggtype === Nojagg ? _type : Vector{_type}
diff --git a/src/utils.jl b/src/utils.jl
index 042fe803..ef47e860 100644
--- a/src/utils.jl
+++ b/src/utils.jl
@@ -114,6 +114,9 @@ function parseTH(th::Dict{Symbol, Any}; raw=true)
     counts = th[:fN]
     nentries = th[:fEntries]
     sumw2 = th[:fSumw2]
+    if isempty(sumw2)
+        sumw2 = counts
+    end
     dimension = th[:fYaxis_fNbins]
     if dimension > 1
         ymin = th[:fYaxis_fXmin]
diff --git a/test/issues.jl b/test/issues.jl
index 98c01bf7..7bab1231 100644
--- a/test/issues.jl
+++ b/test/issues.jl
@@ -94,3 +94,8 @@ end
     @test length(tree.PandoraPFOs_energy[1]) == 79
     @test length(tree.var"PandoraPFOs_covMatrix[10]"[1]) == 790
 end
+
+@testset "PR 342 TLeafC" begin
+    df = LazyTree(UnROOT.samplefile("TLeafC_pr342.root"), "G4Sim")
+    @test all(df.Process[1:10] .== ["Radioactivation", "msc", "eIoni", "Transportation", "ionIoni", "Radioactivation", "msc", "eIoni", "ionIoni", "Radioactivation"])
+end
diff --git a/test/samples/TLeafC_pr342.root b/test/samples/TLeafC_pr342.root
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..59ff7757
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