diff --git a/SConstruct b/SConstruct
index df86ff95af..dc0deb7000 100644
--- a/SConstruct
+++ b/SConstruct
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ import SCons.Node.FS
 SConsignFile()
 EnsureSConsVersion(0, 96)
 
-version = '2.0beta6.1'
+version = '2.0beta6.2'
 
 subst_dict = { }
 
diff --git a/libs/pbd/xml++.cc b/libs/pbd/xml++.cc
index 3a0af1621d..8d783d59f2 100644
--- a/libs/pbd/xml++.cc
+++ b/libs/pbd/xml++.cc
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ XMLTree::write(void) const
 	doc = xmlNewDoc((xmlChar *) "1.0");
 	xmlSetDocCompressMode(doc, _compression);
 	writenode(doc, _root, doc->children, 1);
-	result = xmlSaveFormatFile(_filename.c_str(), doc, 1);
+	result = xmlSaveFormatFileEnc(_filename.c_str(), doc, "UTF-8", 1);
 	xmlFreeDoc(doc);
 	
 	if (result == -1) {