diff --git a/perl-XML-Parser.spec b/perl-XML-Parser.spec
index 6f4bf7f..a14384d 100644
--- a/perl-XML-Parser.spec
+++ b/perl-XML-Parser.spec
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Name:           perl-XML-Parser
 Version:        2.34
-Release:        8
+Release:        9
 Summary:        A low level Perl module for parsing XML either via trees or streaming
 
 Group:          Development/Libraries
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Url:            http://search.cpan.org/dist/XML-Parser/
 Source0:        http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/M/MS/MSERGEANT/XML-Parser-%{version}.tar.gz
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
 
-BuildRequires:  perl >= 2:5.8.0, perl(ExtUtils::MakeMaker)
+BuildRequires:  perl(ExtUtils::MakeMaker)
 BuildRequires:  expat-devel
 # The script LWPExternEnt.pl is loaded by Parser.pm
 BuildRequires:  perl(LWP), perl(URI)
@@ -45,6 +45,11 @@ find $RPM_BUILD_ROOT -type f -name '*.bs' -a -size 0 -exec rm -f {} ';'
 find $RPM_BUILD_ROOT -type d -depth -exec rmdir {} 2>/dev/null ';'
 chmod -R u+w $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/*
 
+for file in samples/REC-xml-19980210.xml; do
+  iconv -f iso-8859-1 -t utf-8 < "$file" > "${file}_"
+  mv -f "${file}_" "$file"
+done
+
 %check
 make test
 
@@ -61,6 +66,10 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 
 
 %changelog
+* Tue Oct 23 2007 Robin Norwood <rnorwood@redhat.com> 2.34-9
+- Remove BR: perl
+- fix utf-8 rpmlint warning
+
 * Tue Aug 28 2007 Robin Norwood <rnorwood@redhat.com> - 2.34-8
 - Update license tag
 - Add README Changes samples/ to %%doc section