I agree, the literals contain non-ASCII-characters encoded in UTF-8, therefore "use utf8" is required. Fixed in 1.131810, please test.
Still waiting for http://acme.cpanauthors.org/for/austrian to update in order to check the output there...
Mon Jul 01 16:52:16 2013The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
Mon Jul 01 16:52:16 2013gortan [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'patched'