I wrote a quick hack for setting charset in PEAR/XML_RSS 0.9.2 (so annoying bug)… and I discovered a similar patch in PEAR bug 2782 :-) and also that beta versions (PEAR/XML RSS >= 0.9.9) fixed it. Note that you need this feature to use ISO8859-1 feed with PEAR/XML_RSS on “UTF8 by default” system (like standard installation of Debian Etch for example).
RSS feeds are really great because you are always updated with the latest news or blog posts.’*~