1461807 - Error: "An error occurred while parsing the native salesforce report", when refreshing a reports based on Salesforce.com in Crystal Reports

Error: An error occurred while parsing the native salesforce report.
Crystal Reports returns the following error while trying to connect to salesforce.com stored procedure with special character like © (copyright)

    "Database Connector Error: An error occurred while parsing the native salesforce report"
The same value is displayed successfully when connecting to a Salesforce.com table from Crystal Reports.
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Open Crystal Reports designer.
Connect to Salesforce.com
Connect to Stored Procedure that contains data with a special character in any string value.
It will then fail with the error: "Database Connector Error: An error occurred while parsing the native salesforce report"

Copyright character is not supported due to Salesforce.com Stored Procedure connectivity limitation.
Salesforce.com Stored Procedure connectivity is different than Salesforce.com direct Table connection.
For Stored Procedure, Crystal Reports download the xls file from Salesforce.com, and parse it using pullparser, and if the data contains copyright character, the xls file would be:

<td style="vnd.ms-excel.numberformat:@">Subject</td><td style="vnd.ms-excel.numberformat:@">copyright character © here</td>“©”

Which is an invalid element content in pullparser.
For Salesforce.com Table, Crystal Reports is getting the data using the API directly without pullparse.

To be able to report off a Salesforce.com Stored Procedure that have data that contains special characters, you have to delete or replace the unsupported characters in Salesforce.com data.

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Crystal Reports 2008 V1 ; SAP Crystal Reports 2011