Index: srcs/parserInternals.c
===================================================================
--- srcs/parserInternals.c  (revision 1054838)
+++ srcs/parserInternals.c  (working copy)
@@ -948,6 +948,8 @@
 {
     xmlCharEncodingHandlerPtr handler;

+    if (ctxt->forceUTF8 == 1) enc = XML_CHAR_ENCODING_UTF8;
+
     if (ctxt == NULL) return(-1);
     switch (enc) {
    case XML_CHAR_ENCODING_ERROR:
@@ -1668,6 +1670,7 @@
     ctxt->errNo = XML_ERR_OK;
     ctxt->depth = 0;
     ctxt->charset = XML_CHAR_ENCODING_UTF8;
+    ctxt->forceUTF8 = 0;
     ctxt->catalogs = NULL;
     xmlInitNodeInfoSeq(&ctxt->node_seq);
     return(0);
Index: srcs/parser.c
===================================================================
--- srcs/parser.c   (revision 1054838)
+++ srcs/parser.c   (working copy)
@@ -8929,6 +8929,15 @@
    } else {
        xmlFatalErr(ctxt, XML_ERR_STRING_NOT_STARTED, NULL);
    }
+
+    if (ctxt->forceUTF8) {
+        if (encoding != NULL)
+        xmlFree((xmlChar *) encoding);
+        if (ctxt->encoding != NULL)
+        xmlFree((xmlChar *) ctxt->encoding);
+        ctxt->encoding = xmlCharStrdup("UTF-8");
+        return(ctxt->encoding);
+    }
    /*
     * UTF-16 encoding stwich has already taken place at this stage,
     * more over the little-endian/big-endian selection is already done
@@ -13298,6 +13307,12 @@
    ctxt->options |= XML_PARSE_COMPACT;
         options -= XML_PARSE_COMPACT;
     }
+    if (options & XML_FORCE_UTF8) {
+        ctxt->forceUTF8 = 1;
+        options -= XML_FORCE_UTF8;
+    } else {
+        ctxt->forceUTF8 = 0;
+    }
     ctxt->linenumbers = 1;
     return (options);
 }
Index: parser.h
===================================================================
--- parser.h    (revision 1054838)
+++ parser.h    (working copy)
@@ -247,6 +247,7 @@
     xmlParserInputPtr  entity;        /* used to check entities boundaries */
     int                charset;       /* encoding of the in-memory content
                         actually an xmlCharEncoding */
+    int                forceUTF8;     /* ignoring encodings, using UTF8 for everywhere */
     int                nodelen;       /* Those two fields are there to */
     int                nodemem;       /* Speed up large node parsing */
     int                pedantic;      /* signal pedantic warnings */
@@ -1089,9 +1090,10 @@
     XML_PARSE_NSCLEAN  = 1<<13,/* remove redundant namespaces declarations */
     XML_PARSE_NOCDATA  = 1<<14,/* merge CDATA as text nodes */
     XML_PARSE_NOXINCNODE= 1<<15,/* do not generate XINCLUDE START/END nodes */
-    XML_PARSE_COMPACT   = 1<<16 /* compact small text nodes; no modification of
+    XML_PARSE_COMPACT   = 1<<16, /* compact small text nodes; no modification of
                                    the tree allowed afterwards (will possibly
                   crash if you try to modify the tree) */
+    XML_FORCE_UTF8      = 1<<17 /* force ignoring any charsets and use utf8 for everything */
 } xmlParserOption;

 XMLPUBFUN void XMLCALL