in reply to Re^15: Seeking Perl docs about how UTF8 flag propagates (Terminology)
in thread Seeking Perl docs about how UTF8 flag propagates

we were talking about encoded text without UTF8 flag

Absolutely not. You replied to "Terms describing what a string represents (unrelated to storage format)" (emphasis added).

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