how i unicode characters pod perldoc?

i need utf-8 characters perl-documentation.
if i use:

perldoc mymod.pm

i uncanny characters. i use:

pod2text mymod.pm

everything fine.

i ubuntu/debian.

$ locale
lang=de_de.utf-8
lc_ctype="de_de.utf-8"
lc_numeric="de_de.utf-8"
lc_time="de_de.utf-8"
lc_collate="de_de.utf-8"
lc_monetary="de_de.utf-8"
lc_messages="de_de.utf-8"
lc_paper="de_de.utf-8"
lc_name="de_de.utf-8"
lc_address="de_de.utf-8"
lc_telephone="de_de.utf-8"
lc_measurement="de_de.utf-8"
lc_identification="de_de.utf-8"
lc_all=de_de.utf-8

is there howto controlling special characters pod?

here little instance controlling german umlauts "just test: ":

$ perldoc perl/mymod.pm
<standard input>:72: warning: can't impression quarrel formula 159
<standard input>:72: warning: can't impression quarrel formula 150
mymod(3)              user contributed perl support             mymod(3)

name
        mymod.pm - only test: ¤

perl v5.10.0                      2008-10-16                          mymod(3)