Fixed a small handful of UTF-8 issues

0.005007 - 2014-07-03
    - Fixed a reported memory leak
    - Fixed a problem with failed assertions on channel_close() on a not-at-all-connected instance.

0.005006 - 2014-06-24
    - Added some additional handling for UTF-8 going into Perl strings (manchicken)
    - Added a simple test to demonstrate UTF-8 safety. (manchicken)