I'm trying to parse and modify some xml files unsing XML::DOM(::XPath). These xml files are encoded in UTF-8 and provide a correct xml declaration: 
<?xml version = "1.0" encoding = "UTF-8"?>

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If I save or print the modified xml, that declaration still is intact, however the actual file encoding changes to latin1. This even happens if I comment out all of the modifications and just parse the file. This reduces my code to: 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use XML::DOM::XPath;
use strict;
use warnings;

my $parser= XML::DOM::Parser->new();
my $srcdir=shift;
my $dstdir=shift;
opendir(SRC,$srcdir);
foreach(grep (/\.xml$/,readdir(SRC)))
{
    my $doc = $parser->parsefile("$srcdir/$_");
    $doc->printToFile("$dstdir/$_");
    $doc->dispose;
}
close(SRC);

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My knowledge of perl is rather basic, I must be doing something utterly wrong here but unfortunately, I can't figure out what it is. I'm using perl 5.8.8 and XML::DOM 1.43.

Any hints are appreciated; thank you in advance.

In reply to XML::DOM encodes in latin1 instead of UTF-8 by papo

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