- Dropping support for uncode before 5.8.5 to simplify support and
to prevent people hurting themselves on platforms that don't
properly support Unicode anyway (ADAMK)
are correctly assumed Perl unicode strings, instead of relying on its
internal character encoding as UTF-8.
This *might* break (potentially broken) apps that passes UTF-8 encoded
strings, instead of decoded strings, to ->execute or ->bind_param()
without SQL_BLOB. But this new behavior is more natural to how Perl
handles strings and consisten to what other drivers do under UTF-8
options set, e.g. DBD::mysql with mysql_enable_utf8 option. See also
http://use.perl.org/~miyagawa/journal/38770 for details.
Fixes RT bug 25371.
