Thanks mirod, for pointing out. Yes, I did use the xml feed encoding as <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>. That throws interesting challenge. [XxXXXxx® II xxxxxx xxxxxxxxxx xxx but fails for XxXXXxx® 77 xxxxxx xxxxxxxxxx xxx So if there are numbers after the symbol it does not recognize now. If it is chars, seems to understand that. Any further pointers pls ?