Nope that is not it... :( 

pkn@precious:~/scripts/perl/csv$ ./parse.pl
1.36

$VAR1 = [];

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did manage to get the "detect_bom => 1" into it with the new version. But as a result it no longer parses the file (correctly). 
pkn@precious:~/scripts/perl/csv$ ./parse.pl
1.36

$VAR1 = [
          {
            'Naam' => 'Peter',
            'Adres' => "Li\x{eb}r",
            'Woonplaats' => "\x{f4}lsten"
          }
        ];

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withoud bom detection it parses the test file but the encoding is still screwed.

Got some more reading to do. One thing I came across was: 

my $aoh = csv(
               in => $FH,
               headers => 'auto'
             );

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I thought having "headers => 'auto' in there would trigger an automagic detection of encoding. According to something I read in a man page this is not the case. Now if I could only remember what man page I was reading Text::CSV or Text::CSV_XS :S. Should not be to hard to find again.

In reply to Re^2: Text::CSV_XS and encoding by PeterKaagman
in thread Text::CSV_XS and encoding by PeterKaagman

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