Most probably your document is not really UTF-8 as you declare, but is ISO-8859-1. In UTF-8, the pound character would be represented as a two byte sequence. Change your XML declaration to the following and see if you get the expected behavior.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
