Gnome FTP XML feed

["Eugenia Loli-Queru" <eugenia osnews com>]

XML Parsing Error: not well-formed
Location: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/LATEST.xml
Line Number 258, Column 17:        * Matic %GŽ% gur (sl)<br>

This happens at least 2-3 times a month, every month. A developer is 
uploading a NEWS file and the gnome RSS creator script is not doing a 
utf8_encode() (or similar) and so these non-english characters are getting 
into the XML file and then the feed doesn't validate anymore. And that 
breaks gnomefiles and other sites that use the feed...
Any chance someone could pre-utf8_encode the NEWS and CHANGELOG files before 
adding them to the Gnome XML feed?

thx,
Eugenia