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

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Re^8: Interleaving bytes in a string quickly
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Feb 26, 2010 at 22:39 UTC
    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"?

      Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.
      "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority".
      In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.
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        What file? I was talking about using SvPVX to access the bytes of a string of bytes.
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