Bernhard Zwischenbrugger wrote:
UTF-8 does not allow use  
That's just silly. The character encoding has very little to do with allowing entities. As far as I know, is an HTML entity that is not defined for XML; thus, you can only use it in (X)HTML documents that reference the appropriate DOCTYPE and/or DTD. Otherwise, you could probably use a numeric character reference like  .
Regards, Manuzhai