Anyone have any ideas why & # 1 6 0 ; is rendering as '?"'s? when both
browser and
xsl:output is set to UTF-8?

Did change charsets to UTF-8 in FF and IE and the ?'s will not go away.

Meta tag:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />

xsl:output:

<xsl:output method="html" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes" />

How is the resultant HTML getting from the transform to the browser?
If you are writing it to a file check that its being written using
UTF-8.  If it's being served to the browser make sure it's being
served as UTF-8.