It's a good thing I'm not a total idiot or anything:

Locale::Maketext 1.06 ChangeLog:

2003-06-21  Sean M. Burke  sburke@cpan.org
	* Release 1.06:  Now has "use utf8" to make the things work
	happily.  Some fancy footwork is required to make this work under
	pre-utf8 perl versions.