utf-8 and lwp seems to be a constant struggle...
Why does this little script return an empty string? Anybody?? 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use LWP::UserAgent;
use utf8;

my $agent = LWP::UserAgent->new();
my $response = $agent->get('http://www.ku6.com/show/34D6sgY4X6w3YegR.h
+tml');

print $response->decoded_content ."\n";

[download]
Using content() works but gives (at least in console) garbled data. Doing decode("utf8", $response->content) looks like doubly decoding.

Some posts regarding decoded_content() on the usenet hint that decoded_content() might fail when the content isn't tagged properly with "encoding" etc. But strangely this page has a proper Content-Encoding header...

So why does it fail? And how do I get it to work?
Any help welcome!

In reply to Chinese site and decoded_content() trouble by isync

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