I have a suitelet that queries data for an Advanced PDF report. I'm running into the following error which is related to a text field with an '*&*' (e.g. special character). Any suggestion for handling this encoding issue? I would perefer to tackle this issue pre-PDF, just not sure what the best approach is.

& should be replaced by &

try N/xml module. e.g xml.escape({ xmlText: record.field_with_&_in_it});