The short answer is that Dist::Zilla is not yet utf-8 clean (read more here - https://github.com/rjbs/Dist-Zilla/issues/212). The long answer depends on what plugins you are using, and in what configuration, as it is often possible to get your dist to come out right, even though the core is doing things incorrectly.
I'd suggest changing your pod encoding to ISO-8859-1 for now, as that's probably the form that the characters are taking in the output file.
That is, in your weaver.ini
:
[-Encoding]
encoding = ISO-8859-1
If that fails (it's quite possible you have both utf8 and latin1 chars showing up in your .pm file), you'll have to remove [Test::Mojibake] for now.
RJBS says this should be fixed in Dist::Zilla version 5
If you have a non default weaver.ini
, after upgrading to Dist::Zilla 5 and Pod::Weaver 4, you'll need to add the following to your weaver.ini
to have =encoding utf8
added
[-SingleEncoding]