Hi!
There was a comprehensive discussion on this functionality a few months back on the mailing list and the overall consensus was that the functionality made sense (as was committed) but was to late in the game to be part of the 5.3 branch. So, now that the trunk has been established it went in.
I remember that there were opposition to this way of doing it, from myself and other people, and these concerns were never answered adequately. So I consider it being more matter of "better ask forgiveness than permission" that consensus thing. I personally still think that as it is done it is not the best way to do it.
My recollection - maybe wrong - was that we wanted to go back to it after 5.3, but wasn't that there was a decision to commit it as-is (even without cleaning out Unicode stuff...)
As for discussions on IRC, please remember that not everybody can hang out on IRC, that's why we have internals list.
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