[BUG] Add-PnPPageSection throws error "Invalid character in Xml String."

[exensio-rori]

Reporting an Issue or Missing Feature

"Add-PnPPageSection" does not add the new section and ends with error message.

Expected behavior

"Add-PnPPageSection" adds the new section with the specified properties.

Actual behavior

Error while adding the web part: Invalid character in Xml String. Chr 2 is illegal.

Steps to reproduce behavior

SharePoint page with Text web part which contains the following text:
Te�st
(these are 5 characters, four of them are 'normal' and one of them is a special character or control character)
Add-PnPPageSection -Page <myPage> -SectionTemplate OneColumn

What is the version of the Cmdlet module you are running?

PnP.PowerShell 2.2.0

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[exensio-rori]

Entering the control character here in GitHub is not possible (for me).

[markgort86]

Is the error also available with the most recent version of PnP.PowerShell? The community just released version 2.5.0
See: https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/PnP.PowerShell/2.5.0.

You can install this version by using Install-Module -Name PnP.PowerShell -RequiredVersion 2.5.0