I have an issue where there seems to be questions marks placed in the HTML text where the source text has odd characters from a text editor.

here's an example:
Viatical Settlements, Life Settlements, and the Secondary Insurance Market桺art I (CC 04-02)

not sure if you can see the chinese character in that or not on your browser. It is either a chinese character or a '?' the way it gets parsed.

but it should say:
Viatical Settlements, Life Settlements, and the Secondary Insurance Market -Part I (CC 04-02)

but the hyphen is an elongated one which parses as a chinese text for me. At first I thought this was an issue of my development computer since I moved to China and have alternate text input available on my laptop, but after uploading the code to my server in USA I see it's doing this still. I've added:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
to the head tags, but it still shows a question mark.

suggestions?