diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 03a09cec1..23198f2e3 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ $Id$
 - patch #2976790 [menu] Go to the upper level after table DROP,
   thanks to Kaarel Nummert - kaarelnu
 - patch #2978815 [pdf] Fix generating PDF with table dimensions, thanks to BlinK_
+- patch #2977725 [export] XML wrongly encoded, thanks to Victor Volkov - hanut
 
 3.3.1.0 (2010-03-16)
 - bug #2941037 [core] Database structure not sorted by table correctly 
diff --git a/libraries/export/xml.php b/libraries/export/xml.php
index 5b82ad5ec..aab58d0eb 100644
--- a/libraries/export/xml.php
+++ b/libraries/export/xml.php
@@ -337,7 +337,7 @@ function PMA_exportData($db, $table, $crlf, $error_url, $sql_query) {
                 if (!isset($record[$i]) || is_null($record[$i])) {
                     $record[$i] = 'NULL';
                 }
-                $buffer .= '            <column name="' . $columns[$i] . '">' . htmlspecialchars(utf8_encode((string)$record[$i]))
+                $buffer .= '            <column name="' . $columns[$i] . '">' . htmlspecialchars((string)$record[$i])
                         .  '</column>' . $crlf;
             }
             $buffer         .= '        </table>' . $crlf;