use Mojolicious::Lite;

# we need this lib, part of core
use Encode;

get '/' => sub {
  my $self = shift;

  use Git::Repository;
  my $repo = Git::Repository->new(work_tree => ".");
  my $log  = $repo->run( "log" );

  # this call does the trick
  my $wtf  = decode_utf8($log);

  $self->render(text => "$wtf  -- möre Ümläut\n" );
};

app->start;