Re: use Encode; # on Japanese; LONG!

> > The compiled forms of the multibyte and two-byte encodings are
> > larger. So I envisage -MEncode=japanese (say) to load clusters.
>    Once again it is programatically correct and politically incorrect.  
> IMHO Encode loads nothing but ASCII and utf8 by default to be fair.
ASCII <-> UTF-8 conversion is not only fair but quite trivial :-)

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