encoding in DOM XML

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Hi all,

I want to build a nice XML tree from scratch:

$doc = new_xmldoc("1.0");
$doc->encoding = "iso-8859-2";
$root = $doc->add_root("registration");
$root->new_child("login", $data->login);
$root->new_child("name", data->name);
echo $doc->dumpmem();

It seems to me, that setting the encoding this way has no effect, since the result is something like this:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<registration>
<login>...</login>
<name>...</name>
</registration>

Checking the encoding as
echo $doc->encoding;
gives the correct result (iso-8859-2) however.
When the nodes' values contain accents, I get only their codes on the output like: &#x1A75;&#250;

I tried another method:

$doc = xmldoc('<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-2"?><registration/>');
$root = $doc->root();
$root->new_child("login", $data->login);
$root->new_child("name", data->name);
echo $doc->dumpmem();

This way I get the correct output:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-2"?>

But when there are accents the result is terrible: the output is truncated at the first irregular character that is when a character with accent appears the rest of the string simply disappears.

Is there a way to use this modul with non-us charset?
Thanks for any help bye, Peter