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+use strict;
+use warnings;
+use FindBin qw/$Bin/;
+use lib "$Bin/../lib";
+
+use Test::More;
+# "binmode STDOUT, ':utf8'" is insufficient, see http://code.google.com/p/test-more/issues/detail?id=46#c1
+binmode Test::More->builder->output, ":utf8";
+binmode Test::More->builder->failure_output, ":utf8";
+
+use Catalyst::Test 'TestAppEncoding';
+
+plan skip_all => 'This test does not run live'
+ if $ENV{CATALYST_SERVER};
+
+{
+ # Test for https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=53678
+ # Catalyst::Test::get currently returns the raw octets, but it
+ # would be more useful if it decoded the content based on the
+ # Content-Type charset, as Test::WWW::Mechanize::Catalyst does
+ use utf8;
+ my $body = get('/utf8_non_ascii_content');
+ utf8::decode($body);
+ is $body, 'ʇsʎlɐʇɐɔ', 'Catalyst::Test::get returned content correctly UTF-8 encoded';
+}
+
+done_testing;