diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 0cd9e1c..0dd8b7d 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ rio_xml="0.8.4"
 [features]
 default = ["remote"]
 remote = ["ureq"]
+encoding = ["quick-xml/encoding"]
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 horned-owl = {path=".", features = ["remote"]}
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 191576a..5bb0f54 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -6,22 +6,23 @@ Horned OWL
 *Horned-OWL* is a library for processing and manipulating documents written using the [Web Ontology Language (OWL)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Ontology_Language).
 
 It extends the existing ecosystem of Rust crates for the Semantic Web and provides tools to interact with OWL ontologies within Rust applications.
-It leverages the features of Rust to be performant and competitive against other libraries for ontologies manipulation, such as the [OWL API](https://github.com/owlcs/owlapi). Horned-OWL is aimed at allowing ontologies
+It leverages the characteristics of Rust to be performant and competitive against other libraries for ontologies manipulation, such as the [OWL API](https://github.com/owlcs/owlapi). Horned-OWL is aimed at allowing ontologies
 with millions of terms.
 
-
-## Features
-
-+ Supports the OWL 2 language as specified in the [W3C Recommendation](https://www.w3.org/TR/owl-overview/)
-+ Supports the Semantic Web Rule Language as specified in the [W3C User Submission](https://www.w3.org/submissions/SWRL/)
-+ Supports serialization/deserialization of the following OWL syntaxes:
++ Support for the OWL 2 language as specified in the [W3C Recommendation](https://www.w3.org/TR/owl-overview/)
++ Support for the Semantic Web Rule Language as specified in the [W3C User Submission](https://www.w3.org/submissions/SWRL/)
++ Support for serialization/deserialization of the following OWL syntaxes:
   + [x] RDF/XML
   + [x] OWL/XML
   + [x] Functional Syntax
   + [ ] Manchester Syntax
-+ Provides a [visitor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visitor_pattern) trait to navigate and manipulate ontologies
-+ Provides traits and implementations for several types of ontologies
++ A [visitor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visitor_pattern) trait to navigate and manipulate ontologies
++ Traits and implementations for several types of ontologies
+
+## Features
 
++ `encoding`: enables the `encoding` feature for the [quick-xml](https://crates.io/crates/quick-xml) dependency, expanding support to non-UTF-8 encoded documents while parsing OWL/XML.
++ `remote`: enables the resolution of non-local imports while parsing RDF/XML.
 ## Performance
 
 We test the performance of our crate in validating large ontologies (e.g. the Gene Ontology) against competing implementations based on the OWL API. Preliminary results are encouraging, showing a potential speedup of 20x-40x.
diff --git a/src/io/owx/reader.rs b/src/io/owx/reader.rs
index d8846a3..709d09d 100644
--- a/src/io/owx/reader.rs
+++ b/src/io/owx/reader.rs
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ fn decode_expand_curie_maybe<'a, A: ForIRI, R: BufRead>(
     //   return it as as borrowed string.
     // - in any other case, we need to perform a copy, otherwise the decoded
     //   string / unabbreviated IRI is not going to live long enough.
-    #[cfg(feature = "quick-xml/encoding")]
+    #[cfg(feature = "encoding")]
     match r.reader.decode(val) {
         Cow::Borrowed(b) => expand_curie_maybe(r, b),
         Cow::Owned(o) => match expand_curie_maybe(r, &o) {
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ fn decode_expand_curie_maybe<'a, A: ForIRI, R: BufRead>(
         },
     }
 
-    #[cfg(not(feature = "quick-xml/encoding"))]
+    #[cfg(not(feature = "encoding"))]
     match r.reader.decoder().decode(val) {
         Ok(curie) => {
             let cur = expand_curie_maybe(r, curie);