problem reading separated text

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Hi guys.
I have a *.xml file I have separated into r_ variables.

The problem is (i think atleast) the *.xml is coded in UTF-8, so some of the text i'm interested in are treated like they where iso-8859-1. (We have here in sweden å,ä and ö)

(Top of *.xml file: xml version="1.0" encoding=UTF-8

Do anyone have a workaround for this handy?

Regards Emanuel