The target web-page contains the tex: "æ, ø, å"
That indicates that the web-page in question did not properly encode unsafe characters using HTML::Entities or equivalent, right? But that probably not your fault, unless of course it's your own site. But you can decode it yourself: 
use strict;
use warnings;
use LWP::Simple;
use HTML::Entities;
my $str = decode_entities(get(q{http://www.uio.no}));
my @arr = split('\s+', $str);
for (@arr) {
  print if (m/[æøå]/i);
}
__END__
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 Update: Please disregard this post. It is wrong and misleading.

Andreas
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In reply to Re: LWP::Simple // Special Character problems. by andreas1234567
in thread LWP::Simple // Special Character problems. by RipHard

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