diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index b480160..938c3c9 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,8 +1,11 @@
-CHANGES - 2008-03-20
+CHANGES - 2008-10-26
 --------------------
 
 CHANGES IN Mini-XML 2.5.1
 
+	- mxmlNewXML() now adds encoding="utf-8" in the ?xml directive
+	  to avoid problems with non-conformant XML parsers that assume
+	  something other than UTF-8 as the default encoding.
 	- Wrapping was not disabled when mxmlSetWrapMargin(0) was
 	  called, and "<?xml ... ?>" was always followed by a newline
 	  (STR #76)
diff --git a/mxml-node.c b/mxml-node.c
index da31fdc..ee56f15 100644
--- a/mxml-node.c
+++ b/mxml-node.c
@@ -671,7 +671,7 @@ mxmlNewXML(const char *version)		/* I - Version number to use */
   char	element[1024];			/* Element text */
 
 
-  snprintf(element, sizeof(element), "?xml version=\"%s\"?",
+  snprintf(element, sizeof(element), "?xml version=\"%s\" encoding=\"utf-8\"?",
            version ? version : "1.0");
 
   return (mxmlNewElement(NULL, element));