> Another example could be that at level 2 (and 3), maybe "eq"  
> automatically normalizes before doing string comparisons, and at levels  
> 1 and 0 it doesn't.

Exactly.  People wanted implicit "eq" normalization for Perl 5 Unicode.
The problem always is "where does it end?", because the logical followup
to that would have been "cmp" to do the full Unicode collation.

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