diff --git a/extras/Demo/Source/Demos/ChildProcessDemo.cpp b/extras/Demo/Source/Demos/ChildProcessDemo.cpp
index a4e375daf4..a2c1145c2e 100644
--- a/extras/Demo/Source/Demos/ChildProcessDemo.cpp
+++ b/extras/Demo/Source/Demos/ChildProcessDemo.cpp
@@ -77,8 +77,8 @@ public:
         testResultsBox.setMultiLine (true);
         testResultsBox.setFont (Font (Font::getDefaultMonospacedFontName(), 12.0f, Font::plain));
 
-        logMessage ("This demo uses the ChildProcessMaster and ChildProcessSlave classes to launch and communicate "
-                    "with a child process, sending messages in the form of serialised ValueTree objects." + newLine);
+        logMessage (String ("This demo uses the ChildProcessMaster and ChildProcessSlave classes to launch and communicate "
+                            "with a child process, sending messages in the form of serialised ValueTree objects.") + newLine);
     }
 
     ~ChildProcessDemo()
diff --git a/modules/juce_core/text/juce_StringPool.cpp b/modules/juce_core/text/juce_StringPool.cpp
index 505862236e..f8fd5a7869 100644
--- a/modules/juce_core/text/juce_StringPool.cpp
+++ b/modules/juce_core/text/juce_StringPool.cpp
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ struct StartEndString
 };
 
 static int compareStrings (const String& s1, const String& s2) noexcept     { return s1.compare (s2); }
-static int compareStrings (CharPointer_UTF8 s1, const String& s2) noexcept  { return s1.compare (s2.toUTF8()); }
+static int compareStrings (CharPointer_UTF8 s1, const String& s2) noexcept  { return s1.compare (s2.getCharPointer()); }
 
 static int compareStrings (const StartEndString& string1, const String& string2) noexcept
 {
diff --git a/modules/juce_core/xml/juce_XmlElement.cpp b/modules/juce_core/xml/juce_XmlElement.cpp
index f372e76da9..469f382a49 100644
--- a/modules/juce_core/xml/juce_XmlElement.cpp
+++ b/modules/juce_core/xml/juce_XmlElement.cpp
@@ -71,6 +71,12 @@ XmlElement::XmlElement (const char* tag)
     sanityCheckTagName (tagName);
 }
 
+XmlElement::XmlElement (StringRef tag)
+    : tagName (StringPool::getGlobalPool().getPooledString (tag.text.getAddress()))
+{
+    sanityCheckTagName (tagName);
+}
+
 XmlElement::XmlElement (const Identifier& tag)
     : tagName (tag.toString())
 {
diff --git a/modules/juce_core/xml/juce_XmlElement.h b/modules/juce_core/xml/juce_XmlElement.h
index 251f826921..4ab4d0886e 100644
--- a/modules/juce_core/xml/juce_XmlElement.h
+++ b/modules/juce_core/xml/juce_XmlElement.h
@@ -152,6 +152,9 @@ public:
     /** Creates an XmlElement with this tag name. */
     explicit XmlElement (const Identifier& tagName);
 
+    /** Creates an XmlElement with this tag name. */
+    explicit XmlElement (StringRef tagName);
+
     /** Creates an XmlElement with this tag name. */
     XmlElement (String::CharPointerType tagNameBegin, String::CharPointerType tagNameEnd);