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=head1 INTRODUCTION

We once thought Unicode forced us
to fiddle with bytes to handle "international" characters.
That thinking came from low-level languages like C.

Perl saved us but it took years before everyone believed.
And more years before Perl's Unicode paradigm clearly emerged.

Meanwhile lots of pod and code was written which in hindsight
was confused or misleading.

=head1 THE PERL UNICODE PARADIGM

=over

=item 1.

"B<Decode>" input from binary into Perl characters as soon as possible
after getting it from the outside world (e.g. from a disk file).