database() requires manual setting of UTF-8 mode even with charset: "UTF-8" in place

Greetings!

The POD says:

> if your application is configured to use UTF-8 (you've defined the charset setting in your app config as UTF-8) then support for UTF-8 for the database connection will be enabled, if we know how to do so for the database driver in use.

however (in GWT format):

Given config.yml has `charset: "UTF-8"`
and
Given an SQLite database with proper utf-8 data
When I use `database( { driver => 'SQLite', database => $path_to_db })`
Then the data is garbled until I `$dbh->{sqlite_unicode} = 1;` w/ the handle it returns.

May be SQLite specific or not, not sure ATM.