Re: Encode, take two

[Mark Leisher]

    Jarkko> Nope.  Think bytes > 128 such as "\0xff".  "Simply turning on the
    Jarkko> utf8 flag" would result in malformed utf8.  The utf8 is a promise
    Jarkko> to Perl guts that the data is valid utf8.  If we intentionally
    Jarkko> break that promise Perl is free to burp on us.

Quite right.  Sorry.
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