Global Search and Replace for Scrambled/Garbled Characters

So I exported a bunch (over 3000) contacts from my Outlook on Windows by using Outlook2Mac, and also tried just using a straight CSV export. But the Chinese characters came out all garbled, and I no longer have the use of that Windows machine anymore.
Here's an example:
Name: ∂¿¨¸™K (May Huang)
Job Title: ±M§·∏g≤z
Dept: ¿Á∑~≥B/ODM∑~∞»≥°
Company: ®Ù•ﬂ∞Íª⁄
Address:
§≠™—∂m§≠≈v§≠∏Ù15∏π
•x•_ø§
•x∆W
I figure I can slowly piece together most of it by doing lots of global search and replaces -- for instance, "•x∆W" should be "台灣" (Taiwan) -- and changing each characters I know one by one.
Problem is, I can't figure out how to do a find and replace! Can anyone help me out?
Thanks in advance!
PowerBook G4 17 Mac OS X (10.4.5)

But for the sake of getting a solution to the
original problem, I wasn't able to export the vCards
from AddressBook and then do what you said. For some
reason, I couldn't open the .vcf file in TextEdit;
kept telling me that the file wasn't encoded in
"Traditional Chinese (Windows, DOS)" format.
You need to use the Open dialogue in TextEdit and open the .vcf in something that it will accept. When you export the stuff from Address book, it indeed is not in Trad Chinese.
I don't have your stuff, so I can't be exactly sure, but it should work something like this. You export everything from Address Book. Use the Open dialogue of TextEdit to open the file, probably as UTF-8. Save as MacRoman. Open again as Trad Chinese (Windows). Save as UTF-8. Reimport. You may need to experiment to find what works right.

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