Thanks for that ablanke.

I don't understand this change. I've read in a correctly ISO-8859-1 encoded file and used the same encoding layer when opening it. I then pass it to xml2hash and get rubbish out unless I set this ambiguous utf8decode option documented as "Force decoding of utf8 sequences, instead of just upgrading them (may be useful for broken xml)". My XML is not broken.

$ od -c xx.XML
0000000   <   ?   x   m   l       v   e   r   s   i   o   n   =   "   
+1
0000020   .   0   "       e   n   c   o   d   i   n   g   =   "   I   
+S
0000040   O   -   8   8   5   9   -   1   "   ?   >  \n   <   x   x   
+ 
0000060   f   e   e   d   t   y   p   e   =   "   d   e   l   t   a   
+"
0000100   >   <   T   i   m   e   s   t   a   m   p       C   r   e   
+a
0000120   t   e   d   T   i   m   e   =   "   2   0   1   7   -   0   
+9
0000140   -   2   1   T   0   6   :   4   9   :   1   7   "       T   
+i
0000160   m   e   Z   o   n   e   =   "   G   M   T   "   /   >   <   
+V
0000200   a   l   u   e   >   B   r 370   n   d   b   y       I   F   
+<
0000220   /   V   a   l   u   e   >   <   /   x   x   >  \n
0000235

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Note the 370 octal which is F8 and "ø". This also looks correct to me:

$ perl -le 'use 5.016;use Devel::Peek; my $xml = do {local $/ = undef;
+ open(my $fh, "<:encoding(ISO-8859-1)", "xx.XML"); <$fh>;};  say Dump
+($xml);'
SV = PV(0x1a25da0) at 0x1a3a010
  REFCNT = 1
  FLAGS = (POK,IsCOW,pPOK,UTF8)
  PV = 0x1c22ea0 "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"ISO-8859-1\"?>\n<xx
+ feedtype=\"delta\"><Timestamp CreatedTime=\"2017-09-21T06:49:17\" Ti
+meZone=\"GMT\"/><Value>Br\303\270ndby IF</Value></xx>\n"\0 [UTF8 "<?x
+ml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>\n<xx feedtype="delta"><Times
+tamp CreatedTime="2017-09-21T06:49:17" TimeZone="GMT"/><Value>Br\x{f8
+}ndby IF</Value></xx>\n"]
  CUR = 158
  LEN = 160
  COW_REFCNT = 1

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In reply to Re^2: Problem upgrading XML::Fast from 0.11 to 0.17 by mje
in thread Problem upgrading XML::Fast from 0.11 to 0.17 by mje

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