Foreign XML files, their encoding and how to deal with it?

Hello,

I try to process xml files downloaded from www.archive.org, describing
e.g. NetLabel releases.

On of those files - a ..._meta.xml file looks this way:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<metadata><identifier>fri012</identifier>
<title>Hogar</title>
<creator>El sueño de la casa propia</creator>
...
</metadata>

The Creator should be "El sueño de la casa propia", but how to come
from "sueño" to "sueñno"?

I uses tdom to parse those XML files and tried to apply an "encoding
convertto ascii" or "encoding convertfrom utf-8", but this all does
not work.

The "ñ" would be in utf-8 "ñ", so what's about the other 2 characters
"ƒÂ" inbetween?

Since the XML files don't have this byte ordering mark, I can not
detect myself what encoding is really used.

Can someone please help me out?

Best regards,

Martin Lemburg

.

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