It was several years in the past, but I have used Template with unicode a lot. You can have UTF-8 encoded templates and UTF-8 strings in variables - you just need to declare them consistently.

The very first configuration parameter documented in Template::Manual::Config is ENCODING. I'll quote it here because it is so short:

ENCODING

The ENCODING option specifies the template files' character encoding:

my $template = Template->new({
    ENCODING => 'utf8',
});

[download]

A template which starts with a Unicode byte order mark (BOM) will have its encoding detected automatically.

So, the following program works as I'd expect:

use Template;

use open ":std", ":encoding(UTF-8)";

my $dogface = "\N{DOG FACE}";

my $template = <<"ENDOFTEMPLATE";
Dog face from template: $dogface
Dog face from variable: [% dogface %]
ENDOFTEMPLATE

my $tt = Template->new(ENCODING => 'UTF-8');
$tt->process(\$template,{dogface => $dogface});

[download]

The automatic BOM detection is a handy band-aid if you have a mixture of Latin1 and UTF-8 encoded templates and don't want to re-code them.

In reply to Re: Template and Unicode (was: Re: Another Unicode/emoji question) by haj
in thread Another Unicode/emoji question by Bod

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.