From 414c3320dc4aba4e17c58f78191b200c8ce65ec5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Glover <ajglover@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 20:48:08 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Fixes issue #94 --
 https://github.com/rightscale/right_aws/issues/94

---
 lib/awsbase/right_awsbase.rb | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/lib/awsbase/right_awsbase.rb b/lib/awsbase/right_awsbase.rb
index 30bafe3..ef85a89 100644
--- a/lib/awsbase/right_awsbase.rb
+++ b/lib/awsbase/right_awsbase.rb
@@ -1271,6 +1271,7 @@ def parse(xml_text, params={})
         end 
         xml.parse
       else
+        xml_text.force_encoding 'utf-8'
         REXML::Document.parse_stream(xml_text, self)
       end
     end