What it did was convert   to unicode UTF8. You options are to specify the charset of latin-1 or de-utf-8 your output.
I have been having "fun" wih this issue a lot recently - see XML Simple Charset Q?, XML::Parser and &entity; and (for the de-UTF-8 trick) Re: Re: XML::Parser and &entity; and it may help you to read those nodes and the replies especially the ones by mirod.
Dingus
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