How to handle UTF-8?

Having read

"how to use UTF8?":
http://www.arcknowledge.com/gmane.comp.lang.perl.modules.html-template/2004-07/msg00008.html

the reformist "templates in UTF-8 (and generic support for PerlIO layers)":
http://www.arcknowledge.com/gmane.comp.lang.perl.modules.html-template/2003-06/msg00011.html

and the pessimistic "No way to deal with multi-bytes characters":
http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18910

I am curious to learn what is the current best practice for those of us
desperately dependent on UTF-8 (in my case Unicode is required to
display my languages).

Thanks.



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