Re: [EXPERIMENTAL] 1st draft of Encode

[Jarkko Hietaniemi]

> Being paranoid is a good way to expose bugs.
> 
> If we after some perl operation end up with a string where the UTF8
> flag is turned on and where the bytes do not represent a properly
> encoded sequence, then _that_ is a bug and should be fixed.
> True or false?

True.  But this principle should not be taken into extremes: otherwise
we should remove all !ptr tests in the perl core since there never are
null pointers, right? :-)

> Regards,
> Gisle

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