Hi monks, i've got a weird issue with russian letters in XML::XPath.
The background is:
an XML configuration file with descriptions in different languages. File encoding is UTF8.

Now I want to import some descriptions from other language files (which are all in UTF8 as well). 
$xp = XML::XPath->new(filename => 'config.xml');
$xp->setNodeText(qq~/conf/section[\@name="$name"]/description[\@lang="
+$lang"]~, $val);

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here $val is taken from external TXT file. Running 
$xp->find(qq~/conf/section[\@name="$name"]/description[\@lang="$lang"]
+~)->get_node(1)->string_value();

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will produce me 'это тестовая строка' - a nice UTF8 string in Russian.
That's fine.

now, at the end I want to save my changed XML file and I'm doing something like this: 
open(XML, ">config.xml");
print XML $xp->find('/conf')->get_node(1)->toString;
close XML;

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The problem here is in toString method. It kill my lovely UTF8 russian text... it transforms 'это тестовая строка' into žсновн‹е нас‚€ойки :(
looks like toString output is iso8859-1, not UTF8. There's no info in XML::XPath manual about charsets and I'm stuck with it

any advices? How do I tell XML::XPath to give me UTF8 results, not iso8859-1 ?

In reply to UTF8 issue with XML::XPath by jodaka

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