diff --git a/kbinxml/kbinxml.py b/kbinxml/kbinxml.py
index 0abbeb5..60cf4cd 100644
--- a/kbinxml/kbinxml.py
+++ b/kbinxml/kbinxml.py
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ class KBinXML():
 
     def from_text(self, input):
         self.xml_doc = etree.parse(BytesIO(input)).getroot()
+        self.encoding = XML_ENCODING
 
     @staticmethod
     def is_binary_xml(input):
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 3a63d4e..1e7bbea 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ if sys.version_info < (3,0):
 
 setup(
     name='kbinxml',
-    version='1.0',
+    version='1.1',
     entry_points = {
         'console_scripts': ['kbinxml=kbinxml:main'],
     },