I am totally lost on ideas.
I am using CGI::Application, HTML::Template, XML::Simple, DBI, Class::PhraseBook etc. to:

• Create an multilingual website
• The website needs to support Swedish and English
• The site uses an XML::Simple config file

The text displayed in my webpage will come from various sources such as:

• XML::Simple's XML config file
• Class::PhraseBook's XML file
• Static text from my template files
• Text in the database

Example files:
XML::Simple XML config file example

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<config>
  <language>SE</language>
  <login_successRM>start</login_successRM>
  <logoutRM>start</logoutRM>
  <reg_missing>åäötest</reg_missing> 
</config>
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Class::PhraseBook XML language file example

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE phrasebook [
<!ELEMENT phrasebook (dictionary)*>              
<!ELEMENT dictionary (phrase)*>
<!ATTLIST dictionary name CDATA #REQUIRED>
<!ELEMENT phrase (#PCDATA)>
<!ATTLIST phrase name CDATA #REQUIRED>
]>
<phrasebook>
  <dictionary name="SE">
      <phrase name="1">startsida</phrase>
      <phrase name="2">live</phrase>
      <phrase name="3">musik</phrase>
      <phrase name="4">åäötest</phrase>
  </dictionary>
  <dictionary name="EN">
      <phrase name="1">home</phrase>
      <phrase name="2">live</phrase>
      <phrase name="3">music</phrase>
      <phrase name="4">test</phrase>
  </dictionary>
</phrasebook>
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My problem comes with XML encoding. It encodes everything with utf-8. When I try to display my XML content from my config file and phrasebook file, the Swedish letters å, Å, ä, Ä and ö, Ö will not display correcty.
I got a suggestion that I could output everything in utf-8 by sending a header stating the charset:

$self->header_add( -type => 'text/html; charset=utf-8' );
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That did the trick for my XML output, but text from the HTML::Template files and Database does not output correctly anymore. I could use the following codes for the Swedish letters å, ä and ö

å ä ö
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but I can't rely that users of this webpage is going to use those codes for å, ä and ö everywhere.
What can I do? I have tried using Encode without any success.

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