diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/Translation/Loader/XliffFileLoader.php b/src/Symfony/Component/Translation/Loader/XliffFileLoader.php
index fb7e20995c..109f35b726 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/Translation/Loader/XliffFileLoader.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/Translation/Loader/XliffFileLoader.php
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ class XliffFileLoader implements LoaderInterface
             $source = isset($attributes['resname']) && $attributes['resname'] ? $attributes['resname'] : $translation->source;
             // If the xlf file has another encoding specified, try to convert it because
             // simple_xml will always return utf-8 encoded values
-            $target = $this->utf8ToCharset((string) isset($translation->target) ? $translation->target : $source, $encoding);
+            $target = $this->utf8ToCharset((string) (isset($translation->target) ? $translation->target : $source), $encoding);
 
             $catalogue->set((string) $source, $target, $domain);
 
diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/Translation/Tests/Loader/XliffFileLoaderTest.php b/src/Symfony/Component/Translation/Tests/Loader/XliffFileLoaderTest.php
index adeabe8c06..f1de081134 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/Translation/Tests/Loader/XliffFileLoaderTest.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/Translation/Tests/Loader/XliffFileLoaderTest.php
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ class XliffFileLoaderTest extends \PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
         $this->assertEquals('en', $catalogue->getLocale());
         $this->assertEquals(array(new FileResource($resource)), $catalogue->getResources());
         $this->assertSame(array(), libxml_get_errors());
+        $this->assertContainsOnly('string', $catalogue->all('domain1'));
     }
 
     public function testLoadWithInternalErrorsEnabled()