I don't see where you fixed the encoding declaration. You're telling your parser the UTF-8 document is encoded using iso-8859-1. Errors are to be expected.

I figured I would try and convert it to utf-8 before I parse

I don't see why you would want to do this extra work — you're now doing "decode-encode-decode" instead of just "decode" — and make needless assumptions about the original encoding.