title: Strange Characters In XML Response From Google Weather API Error
body: <p>I've just launched a small application i've been working on. Nothing major, but something I would like to get properly working. It's at <a href="http://www.wedrapp.com" rel="nofollow">www.wedrapp.com</a>.</p>
  
  <p>Most of the time it works perfectly fine. Enter a city, XML is returned, parsed and the data returned is shown to the user.</p>
  
  <p>Unfortunately however, an error is returned when certain cities are searched such as Marseille. If you search Marseille you will see what I mean. I have a feeling it is to do with special characters, as Marseille searched actually returns Marseilles, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in the XML. Similarly Paris gives an error as it actually returns Paris, Île-de-France.</p>
  
  <p>Can anyone shed some light on how to strip these strange characters out, or at least stop them providing an error before hitting the screen? It is XML parsed with PHP.</p>