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mro.c: Correct utf8 and bytes concatenation
The previous commit introduced some code that concatenates a pv on to
an sv and then does SvUTF8_on on the sv if the pv was utf8.
That can’t work if the sv was in Latin-1 (or single-byte) encoding
and contained extra-ASCII characters. Nor can it work if bytes are
appended to a utf8 sv. Both produce mangled utf8.
There is apparently no function apart from sv_catsv that handle
this. So I’ve modified sv_catpvn_flags to handle this if passed the
SV_CATUTF8 (concatenating a utf8 pv) or SV_CATBYTES (cancatenating a
byte pv) flag.
This avoids the overhead of creating a new sv (in fact, sv_catsv
even copies its rhs in some cases, so that would mean creating two
new svs). It might even be worthwhile to redefine sv_catsv in terms
of this....