Ah, so it is the other way round, and very odd indeed. Runinng your code I get the same result, and I don't have UTF-8 in my LANG setting, either. It seems that HTML::TokeParser turns on the UTF-8 flag on strings returned by the get_text() method: 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use HTML::TokeParser;
#use Data::Dump::Streamer;
use strict;
use Devel::Peek;
local $/;
my $lines = <DATA>;
my $tok_par = HTML::TokeParser->new(\$lines);
my $tok_inf = $tok_par->get_token ;
my $tok_typ = shift @{$tok_inf};
my $title =  $tok_par->get_text() || "<NO TITLE FOUND>";
Dump ($title);
__DATA__
<title>egrave: &egrave; : eacute: &eacute; : rsquo: &rsquo; : lsquo: &
+lsquo;</title>
__END__
SV = PV(0x81b4290) at 0x81ed950
  REFCNT = 1
  FLAGS = (PADBUSY,PADMY,POK,pPOK,UTF8)
  PV = 0x8207b90 "egrave: \303\250 : eacute: \303\251 : rsquo: \342\20
+0\231 : lsquo: \342\200\230"\0 [UTF8 "egrave: \x{e8} : eacute: \x{e9}
+ : rsquo: \x{2019} : lsquo: \x{2018}"]
  CUR = 49
  LEN = 52

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- that's why you see the right output on your UTF-8 terminal at home, but garbled stuff on the servers terminal.

Hmm. I call that a bug :-)

--shmem 

_($_=" "x(1<<5)."?\n".q·/)Oo.  G°\        /
                              /\_¯/(q    /
----------------------------  \__(m.====·.(_("always off the crowd"))."·
");sub _{s./.($e="'Itrs `mnsgdq Gdbj O`qkdq")=~y/"-y/#-z/;$e.e && print}

In reply to Re^5: HTML::TokeParser, get_text scrambling rsquo and lsquo by shmem
in thread HTML::TokeParser, get_text scrambling rsquo and lsquo by tridral

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