Recently I face an issue while importing a large xml file because of a some invalid characters in XML content.
Since it is a large file, the regular expression search in notepad++ helps to find the non ascii characters.
[^\s\x20-\x7E]
Thanks to :https://notepad-plus-plus.org/ , https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43334055/notepad-remove-non-alpanumeric-characters