Thanks to the patches by Carl Franks, Template::Alloy has included the ENCODING parameter since version 1.008 (which was released several weeks ago).

This means that you can use ENCODING on both TT2 style templates, as well as on HTML::Template templates and Text::Tmpl templates since Template::Alloy supports them all.

The following example shows usage for setting the encoding - though it is only pulling from a code ref in this example, the encoding works properly when a filename is used rather than a string ref. 
use strict;
use warnings;
use Template::Alloy;

my $t = Template::Alloy->new(ENCODING => 'UTF-8');

my $in  = "[% foo %]|BAR ¥";
my $foo = 'fü';
my $out = '';

$t->process(\$in, {foo => $foo}, \$out)
    || die $t->error;

print "\$out: $out\n";

# Prints
# $out: fü|BAR ¥

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In reply to Re: Handling Encoding in Templates by Rhandom
in thread Handling Encoding in Templates by moritz

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