Microsoft Visual FoxPro 9.0.ISO

1. Microsoft Visual Foxpro Library

Visual FoxPro 9.0 is fully compatible with previous versions of the product. Manufacturers can use the tools of Visual FoxPro 8.0 for deploying applications.

importing xml's using chilkat xml activex and most are coming in encoded in iso 8859-1, but Foxpro expects utf 8. There are no native ways to make VFP accept iso 8859-1,

Microsoft Visual Foxpro Library

Hasn't been a problem for the past 7 years but for some obscure reason, some of the webstores who supply our users with sales order data have started using things like ® in their stock descriptions and that causes vfp reports to throw up a horrible string like ae&pos!. If it was only the registered trade mark, it would be a simple inline search and replace but it's a bunch of arbitrary characters from that esoteric end of the ASCII trail.
Further confusion arises from the observation, when I checked out the ISO-8859-1 and utf 8 codes for ®. They're identical (0174)
Stumped
Anyone got any ideas?