When I run your code from Komodo IDE which understands UTF8 it prints:

Content-Type:text/html; charset=utf-8
Content-Language: utf8;

<p>ä    <span class="sy">ä</span>, <span class="sy">Ä</span><span clas
+s="posg pos">Substantiv, Neutrum, das</span><span class="vg v"> Ä  &#
+603;&#720; das ä; Genitiv: des ä (umgangssprachlich: -s), ä (umgangss
+prachlich: -s) </span></p>

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Is that not what you expected to see? Maybe the terminal you are using doesn't understand UTF8?

Update: note that you don't need use utf8;. That is only required if you want to use UTF8 in your source code. You don't do that, you create a string containing UTF8 characters, but the source code is pure 7 bit ASCII.

Optimising for fewest key strokes only makes sense transmitting to Pluto or beyond

In reply to Re: Perl's encoding versus UTF8 octets by GrandFather
in thread Perl's encoding versus UTF8 octets by Polyglot

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