Just to clarify a bit on what ikegami said above (and just to prove it for myself), here's a little test script to demonstrate a run-time choice of output encoding. When you run this on the command line with no args, the output will be iso-8859-15; when you add "utf8" as an option, that will be the output encoding. The template is the same in both cases. 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use Template;
use Encode;

my $encoding = 'iso-8859-15';
my @testchars = map { encode( $encoding, chr( $_ )) } ( 0xc0 .. 0xff )
+;

if ( @ARGV and $ARGV[0] eq 'utf8' ) {
    $_ = decode( $encoding, $_ ) for ( @testchars );
    $encoding = 'utf8';
}

my $tmpfile = "test.$$.tt";
open( TMP, ">", "/tmp/$tmpfile" ) or die "/tmp/$tmpfile: $!";
print TMP while (<DATA>);
close TMP;

binmode STDOUT, "encoding($encoding)";

my $tt = Template->new( INCLUDE_PATH => "/tmp" )
    or die "template init. error\n";

$tt->process( $tmpfile, { enc => $encoding, testchars => \@testchars }
+ )
    or die "template proc. error\n";

__DATA__
<html>
<p>This page should be using [% enc %].</p>
<table>
[% FOREACH i IN [ 0 .. 3 ] -%]
 <tr>
 [% FOREACH j IN [ 0 .. 15 ] %]
  [%- k = i * 16 + j -%]
  <td>[% testchars.$k %]</td>
 [% END -%]
 </tr>
[% END -%]
</table>
</html>

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In reply to Re: Template Toolkit and different encodings by graff
in thread Template Toolkit and different encodings by morgon

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