I have followed earlier recommendations made on this list to
output the copyright symbol using the ©  encoding.

However, in my output HTML I see the copyright symbol
preceded by a capital A with something on top:  ©

I use Xalan 2.2 and the XSLT output is created inside
a template that just copies the following:

Thanks,
Stuart Zakon
Objects by Design
http://www.objectsbydesign.com