...but it seems that I misread. I thought you were generating the XML.

The XML is always output as "UTF-8"

No it isn't.

"’" is "E2 80 99" in UTF-8.
"’" is "92" in cp1252.

You've indicated you have the latter.
You've indicated the document claims to be the former (implicitly).

You can either fix the encoding, or fix what the XML says the encoding is. The former is easier. 

use strict;
use warnings;

use Encode qw( encode decode );

sub fix_broken_text {
    my ($self, $field) = @_;
    $field =~ s/&/&/g;
    $field =~ s/</&lt;/g;
    $field =~ s/>/&gt;/g;
    $field =~ s/"/&quot;/g;
    $field =~ s/'/&#39;/g;
    return $field;
}

my $decoded_xml;
{
   open(my $fh, '<', $xml_qfn) or die;
   binmode($fh);
   local $/;
   $xml = decode('cp1252', scalar(<$fh>));
}

...Try to fix problems with unescaped characters...

my $encoded_xml = encode('UTF-8', $decoded_xml);

...Pass $encoded_xml to parser...

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If only parts are cp1252, 

use strict;
use warnings;

use Encode qw( encode decode );

sub fix_broken_text {
    my ($self, $field) = @_;
    $field = decode('cp1252', $field);
    $field =~ s/&/&amp;/g;
    $field =~ s/</&lt;/g;
    $field =~ s/>/&gt;/g;
    $field =~ s/"/&quot;/g;
    $field =~ s/'/&#39;/g;
    $field = encode('UTF-8', $field);
    return $field;
}

my $encoded_xml;
{
   open(my $fh, '<', $xml_qfn) or die;
   binmode($fh);
   local $/;
}

...Try to fix problems with unescaped characters...

...Pass $encoded_xml to parser...

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In reply to Re^4: 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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