Failed to encode 2017-9-21T08-49-17.XML to JSON for indexing - malformed or illegal unicode character in string [�ndby IF], cannot convert to JSON at xx.pm line 1827.

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<xx feedtype="delta"><Timestamp CreatedTime="2017-09-21T06:49:17" TimeZone="GMT"/><Value>Brøndby IF</Value></xx>

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use Cpanel::JSON::XS;
use XML::Fast;

sub esIndexFile2 {
    my ($self, $file) = @_;

    my $xml = do {
        local $/ = undef;
        open (my $fh, "<:encoding(ISO-8859-1)", $file) or die "Failed to open $file - $!";
        <$fh>;
    };
    $xml =~ s/^(?:.*\n)//;      # remove first line - the encoding line

    my $hash;
    eval {
        $hash = xml2hash $xml;
    };
    if (my $ev = $@) {
        warn("Failed to parse file $file for indexing - $@ - SKIPPING");
        return;
    }

    my $json = eval {
        encode_json($hash);     # <------------ fails here
    };
    if (my $ev = $@) {
        $self->logwarn("Failed to encode $file to JSON for indexing - $@ - SKIPPING");
        return;
    }

    return 1;
}