[Digikam-users] unicode chars break xmp sidecars?

[Phil]

Does anyone else see the following behaviour? If I assign a tag 
containing a (non-ascii) unicode character to an image, for example 
"café", digikam will write the tag to the image file perfectly well, but 
fails to write the xmp sidecar correctly. Only the first line of the 
sidecar is written:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

I am on OSX 10.9.2, digikam 3.5.0 (current macports).

Thanks