[docbook-apps] XHTML Encoding Issue?

[Russell Seymour]

I am using the XHTML output method for transforming my DocBooks, but I 
think I may have an encoding problem.

I am leaving the system with the default output of UTF-8 but I get the  
character and I want to get rid of it.  I can understand some places 
where it is being done, and that is with empty cells in the table, 
however it also occurs with other characters such as £.

Does anyone know how to eliminate these characters?

Thanks, Russell