Strings can contain bytes. You don't have to do anything special to work with bytes. use bytes; has nothing to do with manipulating bytes.
- If you need to manipulate the internal string format to optimize or to work with some buggy XS,
- You want utf8::upgrade or utf8::downgrade.
- If you need you need to encode to UTF-8 or decode from UTF-8,
- You want utf8::encode, Encode::encode, utf8::decode or Encode::decode.
The person probably wants to eliminate it because of that very misconception you expressed. But don't worry, if anything is ever done, it would still be available on CPAN.
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