I got the database data to display correctly in browsers after decoding the data: 

use Encode;
decode_utf8($db_data);

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But, is this really the way to go? It feels like tha data in the database is still latin1 and that I have to do something with the data instead?

I ran some test suggested elesewhere:

#1 - USE MySQL CHAR_LENGTH TO FIND ROWS WITH MULTI-BYTE CHARACTERS:
SELECT CLUB_NAME
FROM SUME_CLUB_TMP
WHERE LENGTH( CLUB_NAME ) != CHAR_LENGTH( CLUB_NAME ) 

Result
--------------
Törstar

#2 - USE MySQL HEX and Perl bin2hex
SELECT CLUB_NAME, HEX(CLUB_NAME) FROM SUME_CLUB_TMP

Database
--------- 
törstar
74C3B67273746172 

Perl bin2hex
--------- 
74f67273746172
törstar

#3 - SEE IT IN BOTH ENCODINGS
SET CLUB_NAME latin1;
SELECT CLUB_NAME, HEX(CLUB_NAME) FROM SUME_CLUB_TMP;

A databasecall in perl - utf8
--------- 
törstar
74C3B67273746172

A databasecall in perl - latin1
--------- 
törstar
74C3B67273746172

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In reply to Re^7: UTF-8 webpage output from MySQL by boboson
in thread UTF-8 webpage output from MySQL by boboson

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