[Petal] How to use UtF-8 characters in Petal Templates

[Peter Mayr]

Hi!

we really like the Petal Templating-Engine for our webservices, however 
I ran into a small problem:
How can I use UTF-8 characters in Templates?
It seems to me that they are all encoded to ISO-Latin-1.

Here is a small test case:

testcase.pl
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#!/usr/bin/env perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use utf8;

use Petal;

print "Petal with options: output => XHTML\n";
my $Template = new Petal(
         file           => "test.xml",
         output         => 'XHTML',

     );

print $Template->process();

print "\n\nPetal with options: output => XML\n";

$Template = new Petal(
         file           => "test.xml",
         output         => 'XML',

     );

print $Template->process()."\n";

print "Petal with options: output => XHTML, decode_charset => utf-8\n";
my $Template = new Petal(
         file           => "test.xml",
         output         => 'XHTML',
         decode_charset => 'utf-8',
     );

print $Template->process();

print "\n\nPetal with options: output => XML, decode_charset => utf-8\n";

$Template = new Petal(
         file           => "test.xml",
         output         => 'XML',
         decode_charset => 'utf-8',
     );

print $Template->process()."\n";
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test.xml (file is UTF-8 acc. to emacs)
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?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<ul  xmlns:tal="http://purl.org/petal/1.0/">
  <li>UTF-8 Umlaut: ä</li>
  <li>HTML Entity:  ü</li>
  <li>Entity with Hex-Code:&#xFC;</li>
</ul>
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Does anyone of you have some tips or pointers?

Thanks in advance!

  All the best,

  Peter

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