diff --git a/.idea/.name b/.idea/.name
deleted file mode 100644
index da3fc47e..00000000
--- a/.idea/.name
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-php-ews
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/.idea/encodings.xml b/.idea/encodings.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index f7589596..00000000
--- a/.idea/encodings.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<project version="4">
-  <component name="Encoding" useUTFGuessing="true" native2AsciiForPropertiesFiles="false">
-    <file url="PROJECT" charset="UTF-8" />
-  </component>
-</project>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/.idea/scopes/scope_settings.xml b/.idea/scopes/scope_settings.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 922003b8..00000000
--- a/.idea/scopes/scope_settings.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-<component name="DependencyValidationManager">
-  <state>
-    <option name="SKIP_IMPORT_STATEMENTS" value="false" />
-  </state>
-</component>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index ad05b04c..95b73d11 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Changelog
 
-## 0.9.7 - TBD
+## 0.9.7 - 2020-06-24
  * Added a `$options = []` parameter to various methods
  * Made `ExchangeWebServices::drillDownResponses()` static
  * Added a `NotificationAPI::handlePushNotification()` method
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
  * Adding a simple usage for `setFrom`
  * `CalendarAPI::areAvailable` will now check for an error and throw a useful Exception
  * Updated the Restriction format to allow for multiple If's and nexted And's/Or's
+ * Fixed an issue with certain characters in the XML (Issue #180)
 
 ## 0.9.6 - 2018-01-26
  * Added an `options` parameter to `CalendarAPI::updateCalendarItem()`
diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index 235ce0f9..bdab0837 100644
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -4,7 +4,10 @@
 	"require": {
 		"garethp/http-playback": "^1.0",
 		"ext-curl": "*",
-		"ext-soap": "*"
+		"ext-soap": "*",
+		"ext-libxml": "*",
+		"ext-dom": "*",
+		"ext-simplexml": "*"
 	},
 	"scripts": {
 		"cs": "./vendor/bin/phpcs --standard=ruleset.xml -np src/ tests/ examples/",
diff --git a/src/API/NTLMSoapClient.php b/src/API/NTLMSoapClient.php
index d89acdae..4f9e8311 100644
--- a/src/API/NTLMSoapClient.php
+++ b/src/API/NTLMSoapClient.php
@@ -208,7 +208,18 @@ public function __doRequest($request, $location, $action, $version, $one_way = 0
         $this->__last_request_headers = $postOptions['headers'];
         $this->_responseCode = $response->getStatusCode();
 
-        return $response->getBody()->__toString();
+        $responseStr = $response->getBody()->__toString();
+        libxml_use_internal_errors(true);
+        $dom = new \DOMDocument("1.0", "UTF-8");
+        $dom->strictErrorChecking = false;
+        $dom->validateOnParse = false;
+        $dom->recover = true;
+        $dom->loadXML($responseStr);
+        $xml = simplexml_import_dom($dom);
+        libxml_clear_errors();
+        libxml_use_internal_errors(false);
+
+        return $xml->asXML();
     }
 
     /**