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<p>I agree. I also want <c>use bytes;</c> to disable those dumb warnings when I use [chr] and [pack] 'C*' on numbers greater than 255.
<p>If I do <c>pack 'C*', 257;</c>, I am explicitly stating that I am packing <b>8-bit byte date</b>, not f****** "wide characters", and if the numeric value is greater than 8-bits, it should be silently truncated.
<p>If I want to pack wide characters, I can use the U template. I don't need or want those two data types conflated.
<p>More to the point, I think unicode should be explicitly enabled by those that need it, not have to be disabled by those that don't.
<P>IF it were possible for unicode to be used transparently, then it might make some sense to enable it by default, but since it cannot, it doesn't.
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