I fixed issue #94 per the comment -- added force_encoding statement

[aglover]

I had this issue in production and this fixed it for us.

#94

Change is simple -- xml_text.force_encoding 'utf-8'

[konstantin-dzreev]

This does not seem to work with ruby 1.8.7

[aglover]

Yep, it isn't an issue on 1.8.7! :) I did not test pre-1.9.2. Sorry about that. Any suggestion other than checking RUBY_VERSION before the call?

[JoshReedSchramm]

Is anyone still looking at this pull request? If not I can pick it up and see if we can fix it in 1.8.7