utf-8 encoded strings in RSS feeds

[MacTommy]

Dear all,

I am using XML::RSS:arser (Perl 5.8.8) to download RSS feeds. These feeds however regularly are utf-8 encoded, so the raw XML looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
...
<item>
 <title>€˜Title with quotesg’</title>
 <link>[URL unfurl="true"]http://feeds.someRSS.nl/</link>[/URL]
 <description>This is what an &euml; looks like: ë
 </description> 
</item>
...

I actually don't really know what wrong here...
- Is this correct UTF-8, but is my way viewing it wrong?
- Do I have to convert every string in some way?
- Is there some option in the XML parser so it does the encoding right itself (I mean, it is in the xml header...).

Thanks a lot!