G'day Polyglot,

"EDIT: ... necessitate the invocation of use utf8; ..."

In that case, I recommend you place the following directive at, or very near, the start of your POD:

=encoding utf8
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I always put that as the first line of POD in my modules. It means I don't have to worry about using borrowed words with diacritical marks anywhere in the POD. It also covers the following piece of boilerplate which appears near the end of the POD in most of my modules:

=head1 LICENCE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright © ...

See also: "perlpod: =encoding encodingname".