note ikegami <p>If you need to work around a bug, just use <c> utf8::upgrade($var); </c> <p>or <c> utf8::downgrade($var); </c> <p>to get the the string in the expected storage format (regardless of the current storage format). <p>The only use I can think of for <c>utf8::is_utf8</c> is for debugging, but I use [mod://Devel::Peek]'s <c>Dump</c> when I want to peek at a scalar's internals. 1043473 1043473