Invalid Character in XML document

Hello,
I'm parsing an XML document using Apache SAX parser implementation, and I got the Exception below.
After looking around, I found that it happened cause by the symbol " � " in one of the element.
How should I handle this? Thanks in advance for the help.
<Unexpected exception (org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Invalid byte 2
of 2-byte UTF-8 sequence.). Restarting parsing process in 4 minute(s).>
org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Invalid byte 2 of 2-byte UTF-8 sequence.
     at WW1Events$TrafficEventHandler.fatalError(WW1Events.java:1232)
     at org.apache.xerces.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.fatalError(Unknown
Source)
     at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(Unknown
Source)
     at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(Unknown
Source)
     at
org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatc
her.dispatch(Unknown Source)
     at
org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown
Source)
     at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown
Source)
     at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown
Source)

Let's say the data provided said that they "can't do
anything about it". What do you suggest I should
handle this problem when it occurs again sometimes in
the future?
Thanks for the help.Are you aware of the "Garbage in, garbage out" principle?
That said, if the data is only slightly garbaged-up, and if you really can't get the source to provide non-garbage data, then you'd have to implement a transformation process to take the data in the raw (not thru an XML API, as remember it is malformed to begin with) and produce a well-formed XML piece of data from it. Then operate on the latter.

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