diff --git a/prestapyt/prestapyt.py b/prestapyt/prestapyt.py
index a51d27f..d9eb42c 100644
--- a/prestapyt/prestapyt.py
+++ b/prestapyt/prestapyt.py
@@ -32,6 +32,9 @@
 from . import xml2dict
 from . import dict2xml
 
+import re
+import sys
+
 from xml.parsers.expat import ExpatError
 from distutils.version import LooseVersion
 try:
@@ -139,6 +142,9 @@ def __init__(self, api_url, api_key, debug=False, session=None,
         if not self.client.auth:
             self.client.auth = (api_key, '')
 
+        # To be used for stripping before parsing xml
+        self.illegal_xml_chars = self.get_illegal_xml_chars()
+
     def _parse_error(self, xml_content):
         """Take the XML content as string and extract the PrestaShop error.
 
@@ -265,7 +271,8 @@ def _parse(self, content):
             raise PrestaShopWebServiceError('HTTP response is empty')
 
         try:
-            parsed_content = ElementTree.fromstring(content)
+            stripped_content = self.illegal_xml_chars.sub(b'', content)
+            parsed_content = ElementTree.fromstring(stripped_content)
         except ExpatError as err:
             raise PrestaShopWebServiceError(
                 'HTTP XML response is not parsable : %s' % (err,)
@@ -520,6 +527,27 @@ def get_content_type(self, filename):
         """
         return mimetypes.guess_type(filename)[0] or 'application/octet-stream'
 
+    def get_illegal_xml_chars(self):
+        """ Returns compiled regex with illegal xml chars
+
+        :return: compiled regex
+        """
+        illegal_unichrs = [(0x00, 0x08), (0x0B, 0x0C), (0x0E, 0x1F),
+                           (0x7F, 0x84), (0x86, 0x9F),
+                           (0xFDD0, 0xFDDF), (0xFFFE, 0xFFFF)]
+        if sys.maxunicode >= 0x10000:  # not narrow build
+            illegal_unichrs.extend([(0x1FFFE, 0x1FFFF), (0x2FFFE, 0x2FFFF),
+                                    (0x3FFFE, 0x3FFFF), (0x4FFFE, 0x4FFFF),
+                                    (0x5FFFE, 0x5FFFF), (0x6FFFE, 0x6FFFF),
+                                    (0x7FFFE, 0x7FFFF), (0x8FFFE, 0x8FFFF),
+                                    (0x9FFFE, 0x9FFFF), (0xAFFFE, 0xAFFFF),
+                                    (0xBFFFE, 0xBFFFF), (0xCFFFE, 0xCFFFF),
+                                    (0xDFFFE, 0xDFFFF), (0xEFFFE, 0xEFFFF),
+                                    (0xFFFFE, 0xFFFFF), (0x10FFFE, 0x10FFFF)])
+
+        illegal_ranges = [fr'{chr(low)}-{chr(high)}' for (low, high) in illegal_unichrs]
+        xml_illegal_character_regex = '[' + ''.join(illegal_ranges) + ']'
+        return re.compile(bytes(xml_illegal_character_regex, encoding='utf-8'))
 
 class PrestaShopWebServiceDict(PrestaShopWebService):
     """Interacts with the PrestaShop WebService API, use dict for messages."""