Ok, I did an override of the load_tmpl function like this:

sub load_tmpl {
    my $self = shift;
    my ($tmpl_file, @extra_params) = @_;

    # add tmpl_path to path array if one is set, otherwise add a path 
+arg
    if (my $tmpl_path = $self->tmpl_path) {
        my @tmpl_paths = (ref $tmpl_path eq 'ARRAY') ? @$tmpl_path : $
+tmpl_path;
        my $found = 0;
        for( my $x = 0; $x < @extra_params; $x += 2 ) {
            if ($extra_params[$x] eq 'path' and
            ref $extra_params[$x+1] eq 'ARRAY') {
                unshift @{$extra_params[$x+1]}, @tmpl_paths;
                $found = 1;
                last;
            }
        }
        push(@extra_params, path => [ @tmpl_paths ]) unless $found;
    }

    my %tmpl_params = ();
    my %ht_params = @extra_params;
    %ht_params = () unless keys %ht_params;

    # Define our extension if doesn't already exist;
    $self->{__CURRENT_TMPL_EXTENSION} = '.html' unless defined $self->
+{__CURRENT_TMPL_EXTENSION};

    # Define a default templat name based on the current run mode
    unless (defined $tmpl_file) {
        $tmpl_file = $self->get_current_runmode . $self->{__CURRENT_TM
+PL_EXTENSION};    
    }

    $self->call_hook('load_tmpl', \%ht_params, \%tmpl_params, $tmpl_fi
+le);

    #require HTML::Template;
    # let's check $tmpl_file and see what kind of parameter it is - we
    # now support 3 options: scalar (filename), ref to scalar (the
    # actual html/template content) and reference to FILEHANDLE
    #my $t = undef;
    #if ( ref $tmpl_file eq 'SCALAR' ) {
    #    $t = HTML::Template->new_scalar_ref( $tmpl_file, %ht_params )
+;
    #} elsif ( ref $tmpl_file eq 'GLOB' ) {
    #    $t = HTML::Template->new_filehandle( $tmpl_file, %ht_params )
+;
    #} else {
    #    $t = HTML::Template->new_file($tmpl_file, %ht_params);
    #}
    
        require Template::Alloy;
          
    my $t = undef;
    if ( ref $tmpl_file eq 'SCALAR' ) {
               $t = Template::Alloy->new(type => 'filename', source =>
+ $tmpl_file, %ht_params, ENCODING => 'UTF-8');
    } elsif ( ref $tmpl_file eq 'GLOB' ) {
           $t = Template::Alloy->new(type => 'scalarref', source => $t
+mpl_file, %ht_params, ENCODING => 'UTF-8');
    } else {
        $t = Template::Alloy->new(type => 'filename', source => $tmpl_
+file, %ht_params, ENCODING => 'UTF-8');
    }
        
    if (keys %tmpl_params) {
        $t->param(%tmpl_params);
    }

    return $t;
}
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It works, but I still get strange characters. My template files displays the strange question mark symbol (firefox), square emtpy box (IE) instead of å, ä and ö.

�ndra ditt l�senord
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The data from my database displays as before

Törjebjöåärne
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I have tried to save my template files as UTF-8 without BOM, without any success. Am I doing some kind of double encoding? Why does it give me different characters, sometimes an ö will give me � and sometimes ö

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