Re: Mixing Unicode and Byte output on a Unicode enabled Perl 5.8.0

> I think this area of 5.8 whilst better than 5.6 may still need some 
> clarification before the average user can understand it easily.
Are you using 5.8.0 or 5.8.1?  From your description I would guess .0.
I would suggest 1, there the "automatic" conversion was disabled,
the UTF8 locale no more confuses things.

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