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I could use it. I know the data I'd be passing are byte strings.

That only excuses the first of the three. Mind you, the third could be documented as a known limitation, but it's probably free to handle.

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Re^7: Interleaving bytes in a string quickly
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Feb 26, 2010 at 22:18 UTC

    Okay. How could it "silently encode my bytes as utf"?

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      Perl has two types of strings. Strings of ≤8-bit values and strings of ≤32/64-bit values. If it uses the latter format to store your string of bytes, they will appears as if they have been UTF-8 encoded if you look at SvPVX.
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        Yes. But given I'm reading the file (binary data) in raw mode, how would they get "silently encoded"?

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