domxml_open_file not decoding xml

[Dominik]

domxml_open_file not decoding xml
Author: Daij-Djan
Points: 500
Date: 05/19/2004 03:07AM PDT
on ee

I have following xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?>
<!DOCTYPE noten PUBLIC "-//GERIG//DTD noten 1.0//EN" "http://www.notencity.de/DTD/noten.dtd">
<noten>
  <file id="01-00876-001" title="En Buxtehude" author="Jussenhoven, Gerhard / Schl?sser, Jupp" description="En Buxtehude" price="3.0" category="4" instrument="1" file="01-00876-001.pdf" image="01-00876-001.jpg">
    valid
  </file>
</noten>

It says UTf-16 and is (uploaded from ger. windows machine to eng. debian linux) just as I set it.
domxml_open_file opens it and reads it but for the special character....

Any solution on how to make domxml_open_file decode the file correctly