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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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Re^9: Interleaving bytes in a string quickly
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Feb 26, 2010 at 22:58 UTC

    Yes. But given I'm reading the file (binary data) in raw mode, how would they get "silently encoded"?

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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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        And where do the bytes of the string come from?

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