Is anyone aware of any limitations in 5.8.1 that would lead to a problem
using substr on utf8 strings? I'm getting lots of:

	Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected end of string)

errors in a function that's dealing only with strings that are read from
a file that was written to a file, and is being read back using the
:utf8 encoding layer. I had thought that substr was always safe on such
strings, but it's starting to look like that was a vain hope....

I'll keep debugging, and try a more recent version of Perl, but just
wanted to check in to see if this was a known problem.

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