I ran some examples with Devel::Peek and this is my result:

I try to output: johan from the database with DBI 

SV = PV(0x8e4fe98) at 0x8cdc584
  REFCNT = 1
  FLAGS = (PADBUSY,PADMY,POK,pPOK)
  PV = 0x8f68b08 "Johan"\0
  CUR = 5
  LEN = 8

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I try to output: Törjebjöåärne from the database with DBI
The UTF-8 flag is not set! 

SV = PV(0x8e4fe98) at 0x8cdc584
  REFCNT = 1
  FLAGS = (PADBUSY,PADMY,POK,pPOK)
  PV = 0x8164d28 "T\303\266rjebj\303\266\303\245\303\244rne"\0
  CUR = 17
  LEN = 20

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I try to output: testar from template 

SV = PV(0x8e43e5c) at 0x8e46da4
  REFCNT = 1
  FLAGS = (TEMP,POK,pPOK)
  PV = 0x8ecbef0 "testar\n"\0
  CUR = 7
  LEN = 8

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I try to output: testaråäöÅÄÖ from template
UTF-8 flag is set but I still get strange chars 

SV = PV(0x8e43e5c) at 0x8e46da4
  REFCNT = 1
  FLAGS = (TEMP,POK,pPOK,UTF8)
  PV = 0x8eca838 "testar\357\277\275\357\277\275\357\277\275\357\277\2
+75\357\277\275\357\277\275\n"\0 [UTF8 "testar\x{fffd}\x{fffd}\x{fffd}
+\x{fffd}\x{fffd}\x{fffd}\n"]
  CUR = 25
  LEN = 28

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In reply to Re^5: UTF-8 webpage output from MySQL by boboson
in thread UTF-8 webpage output from MySQL by boboson

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