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> Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 10:18:04 +0200
> From: Deniz Dogan <deniz@dogan.se>
> 
> I'm fetching an XML document that's uses iso-8859-1 coding with 
> `url-retrieve' and then I parse it using `xml-parse-region'.
> 
> After that, I get the parts of the document that I want and insert them 
> into a buffer.  However, the Swedish characters å, ä and ö are displayed 
> as \345, \344 and \326 respectively.
> 
> I've tried messing around with `encode-coding-region' and 
> `decode-coding-region' but I'm really not sure what to do here.

I suggest to start with describing a reproducible recipe for this
problem.  Not sure if this forum is appropriate, perhaps emacs-devel
is a better place (as it sounds like you are describing a bug).