diff --git a/perl-XML-Grove.spec b/perl-XML-Grove.spec
index 7ce58de..4b56452 100644
--- a/perl-XML-Grove.spec
+++ b/perl-XML-Grove.spec
@@ -1,12 +1,13 @@
 Name:           perl-XML-Grove
 Version:        0.46alpha
-Release:        32%{?dist}
+Release:        33%{?dist}
 Summary:        Simple access to infoset of parsed XML, HTML, or SGML instances
 
 Group:          Development/Libraries
 License:        GPL+ or Artistic
 URL:            http://search.cpan.org/dist/XML-Grove/
 Source0:        http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/K/KM/KMACLEOD/XML-Grove-%{version}.tar.bz2
+Patch1:			test.patch
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
 
 BuildArch:      noarch
@@ -23,7 +24,7 @@ the objects using normal Perl syntax.
 
 %prep
 %setup -q -n XML-Grove-%{version}
-
+%patch1 -p1 -b .test
 
 %build
 %{__perl} Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor
@@ -54,6 +55,9 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 
 
 %changelog
+* Tue Jul 22 2008 Marcela Maslanova <mmaslano@redhat.com> - 0.46alpha-33
+- use utf8 in test -> all are passing
+
 * Sun Jul 20 2008 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa@redhat.com> - 0.46alpha-32
 - fix license tag with upstream confirmation
   see: http://perl-xml.cvs.sourceforge.net/perl-xml/XML-Grove/COPYING?revision=1.2&view=markup
diff --git a/test.patch b/test.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3b7c1b8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+diff -up XML-Grove-0.46alpha/t/grove.t.old XML-Grove-0.46alpha/t/grove.t
+--- XML-Grove-0.46alpha/t/grove.t.old	2008-07-22 14:47:27.000000000 +0200
++++ XML-Grove-0.46alpha/t/grove.t	2008-07-22 14:46:42.000000000 +0200
+@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ use XML::Parser::PerlSAX;
+ use XML::Grove::Builder;
+ use XML::Grove::AsString;
+ use XML::Grove::AsCanonXML;
++use utf8;
+ 
+ $loaded = 1;
+ print "ok 1\n";