French characters in XML

I am loading a URL in IE7 and the response is an XML document.  The XML document is encoded UTF-8 and contains French characters.  The french characters (those which contain accents, etc) display as blocks in IE.  I tried in Chrome and they also do not display properly.

A portion of the XML response is below:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<WishlistSearchResponse>
<Registry>
      <RegistryNumber>4122807</RegistryNumber>
            <RegistryType>B</RegistryType>
            <FirstName>JARESH¿11</FirstName>
            <LastName>CH¿PATHI¿11</LastName>
            <AlternateFirstName></AlternateFirstName>
            <AlternateLastName>KUMAR11</AlternateLastName>
            <City>CITY 11</City>
            <State>QC</State>
            <AlternateRegistrantFirstName>joe</AlternateRegistrantFirstName>
            <AlternateRegistrantLastName>smith</AlternateRegistrantLastName>
            <EmailAddress>AA.BB@MAIL.COM</EmailAddress>
            <EventType>0</EventType>
            <EventDate>2011-11-25T00:11:00.000Z</EventDate>
            <Public>
            </Public>
            <AdditionalInformation></AdditionalInformation>
            <StoreNumber>3580</StoreNumber>
            <HomePhoneNumber>9999999999</HomePhoneNumber>
            <GrandParentContactInfo><ContactType></ContactType>
                  <FirstName></FirstName>
                  <LastName></LastName>
                  <AlternateFirstName></AlternateFirstName>
                  <AlternateLastName></AlternateLastName>
                  <City></City>
                  <State></State>
                  <AddressOne></AddressOne>
                  <AddressTwo></AddressTwo>
                  <Zip></Zip>
                  <PhoneNumber></PhoneNumber>
            </GrandParentContactInfo>
</Registry>
      <ResponseStatus>
            <Indicator>Success</Indicator>
            <Message>
                  <MessageType>Informational</MessageType>
                  <DisplayCode>001 -Operation is successful</DisplayCode>
                  <MessageId></MessageId>
            </Message>
      </ResponseStatus>
</WishlistSearchResponse>

Any idea of what I can do to view these characters?