In an attempt to stop Perl 5.6 versions from going completely
crazy, I've tried to basically turn off all Unicode/utf8 support
under 5.6. Under 5.8 and above, Unicode should work fine, and
under 5.6, all Unicode characters should be replaced with a little
"can't render" symbol, either a "¤" or a "?".
Many many thanks to Jarkko Hietaniemi for helping out.(Works under 5.005 now too?)