to escape or not to escape: well formed XHTML with diacritics

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Published on 2011-02-27T23:04:41Z Indexed on 2011/02/27 23:25 UTC
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Say that you have a XHTML document in English but it has accented characters (e.g. meta name="author" content="José"). Let's say you have no control over the HTTP headers.

Should the characters be replaced for their corresponding named entities (e.g. á, etc)?
Should the doc type and the xml:lang attribute be set to English?

I know I can check the W3C recommendation but I am asking more from a practical point of view.

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