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+use strict;
+use warnings;
+
+use FindBin '$Bin';
+use lib "$Bin/lib";
+
+use Test::More;
+
+#for this test encoding => 'UTF-8' is set in testappencodingsetinconfig.json
+use Catalyst::Test 'TestAppEncodingSetInConfig';
+
+my ( undef, $c ) = ctx_request('/');
+isa_ok( $c->encoding, 'Encode::utf8', '$c->encoding' );
+
+done_testing;