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).