XML output option creates invalid characters

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1. Character encoding is not set
   Used: ?xml version="1.0" ?
   Should be changed to: ?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?

2. Examples of the Noark 5-validation report with invalid xml-characters

With E5 for å:

> <test id="AST13" name="Record status" description="Tests whether non-finalized records exist in the archive. A record is considered non-finalized if a finalized date or a finalizing party is not specified, or if the record status is not 'Arkivert' or 'Utgår'." summary="0" info="1" warn="1301" error="0"></test>

Norwegian å is saved as ascii 1 character hex E5

I believe this could be saved as the character entity:
& aring; | Latin small letter a with ring above

With & aring; for å

> <test id="AST13" name="Record status" description="Tests whether non-finalized records exist in the archive. A record is considered non-finalized if a finalized date or a finalizing party is not specified, or if the record status is not 'Arkivert' or 'Utg&aring;r'." summary="0" info="1" warn="1301" error="0"></test>

But better to use UTF-8 declaration at top and save the file as UTF-8
å | LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE (U+00E5) | c3a5

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Correction:
A valid one character ascii replacement for E5 (å) is:
& #229;

As & aring; is not approved by my xml check in notepad++ at least...

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Suggested solution:

1. Encoding declaration first line xml: ?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?
2. Use a standard character encoding check and replace illegal characters with their equivalents
   Now the case of "å" within the word "Utgår" will be saved correctly in the xml output file