Encoding for an XML document containing U+001A

Question

I have an XML document that\'s being generated from some content that people are copy/pasting from all sorts of places (Word documents mostly though).

It looks like

Answer 1

Preprocess the original data, encoding Unicode characters not supported by XML documents yourself. for example, use HTML character encodings:

You'll have to post-process the data when read back in to convert the HTML encoding back to the correct Unicode character.