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With the new utf-8 features there's one thing that i havent been able to do:
raw pasting the content of a file.
I used to do:
//msg $chan $read("file.blabla",1)
but it utf8 converts the thing, when i want it raw pasted(byte for byte).

Any hints?

EDIT: using a raw message send indeed allows it to not be converted... but when doing that it doesnt display anymore in the channel since it's a raw message....