# my example may be any string from a database /user input etc.
my $example = "just a string that i nééd to be utf8 encoded, but can't see it in the chars, so guess::encode won't work";
Encode::_utf8_on($example);

# ...
use open ':utf8';
use open ':std';
#...
my $cgi = new CGI;
print $cgi->header(
	-type		=> 'text/html',
	-expires	=> '-1d',
	-cookie		=> [$cookie],
	-charset	=> 'UTF-8',
)
print $example;

##</code><code>##

just a string that i nééd to be utf8 encoded, but can't see it in the chars, so guess::encode won't work

##</code><code>##

just a string that i nééd to be utf8 encoded, but can't see it in the chars, so guess::encode won't work