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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