My file was written with gedit as utf-8 under linux. I uploaded it as binary and when I look at it in the browser, all umlauts etc are ok (although I need to manually set my browser to encoding=utf-8..)

I use a small script to read in this .txt file and present it as html on a standard webpage which I serve as encoded in utf-8 (why the browser properly recognizes it this time). But the umlauts etc. on the page end up as garbled data then! ö is ö, ä is ä, ü is ü... Looks like a strange double-encoding bug, but I do not alter the data! Manually setting the browser to other encodings is of zero use. 
open(FILE, "<$file");
binmode(FILE);
my @Lines = <FILE>;
close(FILE);

$page = "<html>". join("",@Lines) ."</html>";
print "Content-Type: text/html; encoding=utf-8\n\n";
print $page;

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(simplified snippet) ---updated: filehandle is always "FILE"

In reply to Reading in utf-8 txt file gives garbled data when printed as part of utf-8 html... by isync

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