Garbage Characters in XML Feed

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I still see garbage characters in the news feed. I've read that XML still has trouble dealing with certain characters and figure that the best solution is simply to be sure that those characters don't exist.
Is there a way using the PCS tags to ensure that all characters end up as standard text?

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