I am trying to get Apache, Perl, HTML5 and UTF-8 to all work together in a web page.
What is happening is I can see the HTML5 source code and the browser chrome thinks the encoding is utf-8.
At this point I can not tell if its the server that could need an update or I'm just doing it wrong. Also the Content-Length $byte_count never comes out correct.
The test code.

#!perl
$rendered = <<HTML;
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Title of the document</title>
</head>

<body>
<p>Test</p>
</body>

</html>
HTML

 require Encode; 
 $rendered = Encode::decode(utf8 =>$rendered);
 my $byte_count = length $rendered;

print <<HTML;
Content-Length: $byte_count
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8

HTML
binmode STDOUT, ":encoding(utf8)";
print $rendered;
exit;

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Update: I got it to work. Viewing the source problem was the header text/plain, I needed text/html. The "Content-Length" issues was

the fact I was on windows. 

#!perl
 my $smiley = chr(0x263a); #"\x{263a}"
 my $rendered = <<HTML;
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Title of the document</title>
</head>

<body>
<p>Test
HTML
 my $rendered2 = <<HTML;
</p>
</body>

</html>
HTML

 # embed a Unicode character :)
 $rendered .= $smiley;
 # render footer
 $rendered .= $rendered2;

 use Encode qw{encode};
# [id://1164454]
 binmode STDOUT, ":raw";
 $rendered = encode(utf8 =>$rendered);
 my $byte_count = length($rendered);

print <<HTML;
Content-Length: $byte_count
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8

HTML
print $rendered;
exit;

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Its still so new to me I have a feeling there is something not right...

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