Alternative XML parser for ElementTree to ease UTF-8 woes?

I am parsing some XML with the elementtree.parse() function. It works, except for some utf-8 characters(single byte character above 128). I see that the default parser is XMLTreeBuilder which is based on expat.

Is there an alternative parser that I can use that may be less strict and allow utf-8 characters?

This is the error I'm getting with the default parser:

ExpatError: not well-formed (invalid token): line 311, column 190

The character causing this is a single byte x92 (in hex). I'm not certain this is even a valid utf-8 character. But it would be nice to handle it because most text editors display this as: í

EDIT: The context of the character is: canít , where I assume it is supposed to be a fancy apostraphe, but in the hex editor, that same sequence is: 63 61 6E 92 74