You're getting stuff as cp1252 — "’" is 92 in cp1252 — but you're outputting it as is in a document you claim is UTF-8.

Always decode your inputs. Always encode your outputs. You are apparently doing neither.

Note that the quote is character U+2019, so the proper escape is ’ or ’, not \.

If you pass properly decoded text to the following function, it will produce 7-bit clean UTF-8 (aka US-ASCII) XML text and XML attribute values. 

sub encode_entities {
    my ($self, $text) = @_;
    $text =~ s/&/&/g;
    $text =~ s/</&lt;/g;
    $text =~ s/>/&gt;/g;
    $text =~ s/"/&quot;/g;
    $text =~ s/'/&#39;/g;
    $text =~ s/([^\x20-\x7E])/sprintf("&#x%X;", ord($1))/eg;
    return $text;
}

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In reply to Re: Cleaning up non 7-bit Ascii Chars for XML-processing by ikegami
in thread Cleaning up non 7-bit Ascii Chars for XML-processing by liverpole

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