+ # explicit binmode for socket as "use open" does not seem to work here
+ #binmode $conns{$mynick}->{_socket}, ":utf8";
+ # This will bomb on non-utf8 input
+ #binmode $conns{$mynick}->{_socket}, ":encoding(UTF-8)";
+ # TODO: need to input bytes, but output utf8
+ binmode $conns{$mynick}->{_socket}, ":bytes";
+ binmode $conns{$mynick}->socket, ":bytes";
+