Hi guys I have got the following haskell program: ------------------------------------------------------ import Text.XML.HXT.Core main = do xml <- readFile "test_data-small.xml" let doc = readString config xml res <- runX . xshow $ doc >>> getChildren >>> isElem >>> hasName "contacts" >>> deep isText mapM_ putStrLn res config = [ withParseHTML no , withWarnings yes , withInputEncoding utf8 , withOutputEncoding utf8 , withValidate yes ] ------------------------------------------------------ The file 'test_data-small.xml' contains the following data: ------------------------------------------------------ <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?> <contacts> <person> <name> <firstname>Max</firstname> <lastname>Müller</lastname> </name> </person> </contacts> ------------------------------------------------------ Note the umlaut in the lastname! If I run the program, I get the following error: ------------------------------------------------------ error: UTF-8 encoding error at input position 127: ValueOutOfBounds ------------------------------------------------------ Any help is appreciated. Thanks. -- Greetings Elias