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<p class="MsoNormal">I have a valid XML and a valid XSL file which I transformed into a FO using Saxon.&nbsp; However, XEP is stumbling on some characters like 0xa9 (which is a copyright symbol) and giving the following output.&nbsp; How can I instruct XEP to handle
 these bytes?&nbsp;&nbsp; Thanks.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">C:\XEP&gt;xep -valid -fo c:\temp\XXXXXXXX_fo.xml -pdf c:\temp\XXXXXXXX_pdf.pdf<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(document [system-id file:/c:/temp/XXXXXXXX_fo.xml]<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">&nbsp; [error] Fatal parse error: file:/c:/temp/XXXXXXXX_fo.xml: : invalid UTF-8 byte<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;(check the XML declaration) (code: 0xa9)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Parse error: invalid UTF-8 byte (check the XML declaration) (code: 0xa9)<o:p></o:p></p>
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