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sam> The most likely funny character is the ampersand, which we don't
sam> properly escape in some places.

Nothing simple like that.  It's some 3-byte sequence for opening and
closing smart quotes.  Probably something that isn't legit in UTF-8.
Here is an isolated dump of the bad and good cases:

:; od -xac bad.xml
0000000 3fe2 6d3f 6e65 7375 3fe2 0a3f
          b   ?   ?   m   e   n   u   s   b   ?   ?  nl
        342   ?   ?   m   e   n   u   s 342   ?   ?  \n

:; od -xac good.xml
0000000 80e2 6d9c 6e65 7375 80e2 0a9d
          b nul  fs   m   e   n   u   s   b nul  gs  nl
        342 200 234   m   e   n   u   s 342 200 235  \n
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