Special characters in Nokogiri Builder

Question

I have a street name input like "August Allebéplein", and am creating XML using Nokogiri:

builder = Nokogiri::XML::Builder.new do |xml|
 xml.Street 'August Allebéplein'
end

The result is:

<Street>August Alleb&#xE9;plein</Street>

How can make Nokogiri include special characters?

Answer 1

builder = Nokogiri::XML::Builder.new(encoding: 'UTF-8') do |xml|
  xml.Street 'August Allebéplein'
end