Re^2: UTF8 issue with XML::XPath

[eserte]

If you need to specify the encoding on an XML file, then the XML parser is broken.

The XML encoding is specified in the XML file itself, and the XML parser MUST parse the encoding and act accordingly.

Seems that I was reading too fast ... it's not about parsing an XML file, but about writing an XML fragment. And indeed, this is the right solution, one has to specify the encoding himself in this situation.