Except, it's not Latin-1. Its official representation in Unicode, of which Latin-1 is a subset, is, as you can see from the subject line of thse follow-ups, 8226. That is not below 256, hence not in the Latin-1 range.

What you're inserting is a chr(149) AKA chr(0x95), which is one of the extra characters Microsoft added in its Windows characterset (AKA cp1252), another but incompatible superset of Latin-1.

As such, you may expect some XML parsers to barf on the XML version of these pages, and as sporty can confirm, some do — in his case, the Java XML parser he uses for katterbox.

I found it odd that XML::Parser didn't seem to mind.