Epub interpreting apostrophes and em dashes as Äô and Äî

I am using InDesign CS4 to create an ePub. I have one chapter that is interpreting apostrophes and em dashes as Äô and Äî, upon exporting to ePub format. If I export chapter document separately from the book these characters are displayed correctly, but if I export entire book these characters display correctly in all but this chapter. This ePub does include a TOC Style. When I delete text containing styles that are associated with the TOC style and export, characters are displaying correctly.

The only reason I even know about this is
because I’m able to see the catastrophe in my
original text included in their responses.
That doesn't necessarily mean that your outbound mail is appearing strange to the reader. I would advise you to check that and verify that you really have a problem.
If your readers do see strange characters, it is often because you are sending rich text (which is really html mail) and they are using MS Outlook. Some possible fixes are in this note:
http://homepage.mac.com/thgewecke/woutlook.html
PS Getting rid of all smart punctuation (curly quotes and apostrophe's, special dashes) may also be helpful.

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The only reason I even know about this is
because I’m able to see the catastrophe in my
original text included in their responses.
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http://homepage.mac.com/thgewecke/woutlook.html
PS Getting rid of all smart punctuation (curly quotes and apostrophe's, special dashes) may also be helpful.

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The Hebrews used this practice as well in centuries to come. They worshipped at “high places” prior to the construction of the Temple. The Temple itself was erected on a high mountain in its region.
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notice the symbols instead of quotes. That is happening for every quotation or apostrophe in the chapter.

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But OK, let's do some tests.
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Then report back.
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I'm not that enthusiastic, but I'll willing to at least look at it if all else fails. I gather you've got a deadline?

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Perhaps I wasn't clear. When I wrote "an InDesign book composed of documents that had had no paragraph or character styles in the palettes until text was copied over from a single overall document" I meant to emphasize the part where I CLEARLY said "UNTIL text was copied over." The text I copied over had plenty of paragraph styles. I was trying to point out that each individual document had no PREVIOUSLY EXISTING character or paragraph styles that might have added complexity to the epub output. .
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Just copy this code and execute
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