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to speak Icelandic), but Unicode does.
As discussed elsewhere, Perl tries to stand one leg (two legs, as
-camels are quadrupeds?) in two worlds: the old world of byte and the new
+camels are quadrupeds?) in two worlds: the old world of bytes and the new
world of characters, upgrading from bytes to characters when necessary.
If your legacy code is not explicitly using Unicode, no automatic
switchover to characters should happen, and characters shouldn't get