Zend_View and UTF-8

On one of my projects, we read in an RSS feed from Wordpress, using Zend_Feed:

$feed = Zend_Feed::import('http://dormae-online.com/blog/?feed=rss2');
foreach($feed as $entry) {
echo '<h2>' . $entry->title . '</h2>';
echo '<div>' . $entry->author . '</h2>';
echo '<div>' . $entry->pubDate . '</div>';
echo '<div>' . $entry->{'content:encoded'} . '</div>';
}

This is a wonderful system that allows us to take advantage of the content management features that Wordpress offers, while still presenting a consistent and simple interface for the visitor. There’s just one minor problem: Wordpress uses UTF-8 encoding, while Zend Framework defaults to Latin-1, causing some minor character flaws when presented things like ü or ä. To solve this, we tell Zend_View (and the browser) exactly which character coding to expect:

$body = new Zend_View();
$body->setEncoding('UTF-8');
$body->headMeta()->appendHttpEquiv('Content-Type', 'text/html; charset=UTF-8');

Does anyone know how to tell Zend to use UTF-8 by default?