Is EOS Token ERC20 compatible ?

[gagarin55]

I couldn't find better place to ask, but why EOS Token Smart Contract implements symbol attribute as bytes32 (https://etherscan.io/token/0x86fa049857e0209aa7d9e616f7eb3b3b78ecfdb0#readContract) meanwhile ERC20 says it should be string (https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/blob/master/EIPS/eip-20.md#symbol) ?