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The Encode module provides the interfaces between Perl's strings and the
rest of the system.
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When Perl is processing "binary data", the programmer wants Perl to process
"sequences of bytes". This is not a problem for Perl - as a byte has 256
possible values, it easily fits in Perl's much larger "logical character".
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Encodes a string from Perl's internal form into ENCODING and returns a
sequence of octets.