Special character in xml

Hi
I have a problem when i parse a folder. I use xerces parser and i have a problen with the apostrophe. I use this encoding in my code:
of.setEncoding ("ISO-8859-1");
Anybody knows another version of encoding ?
Thanks !

' is the XML escape for the apostrophe (') and &quote; is the XML escape for the quote (").

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here is the brief descriptio.
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