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
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