I don't see any method to get the "raw" text either.

In any case, if the output encoding doesn't matter, just open the output file in utf8 mode and set the correct encoding in the html file (not needed if the file is on a webserver that sends the correct content-type w/ charset header for the file): 

open my $out,">:utf8",$filename or die $!;
# print head start
print $out q(<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; chars
+et=UTF-8">);
# print rest of head and document

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In reply to Re^3: HTML::TokeParser, get_text scrambling rsquo and lsquo by Joost
in thread HTML::TokeParser, get_text scrambling rsquo and lsquo by tridral

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