Fill path issue

Hi,
How can I determine which part of a path is inside or outside? Here I have a compound path that I try to fill but two of the rectangular areas are not being filled. Is there a way to force it or edit the path so as it's being closed?

After doing some clean up with the scissor tool, removing the rectangular area at the bottom of the triangle... The path is not being filled according to the path lines or the stroke lines, is there any way to tell illustrator what should be inside and outside?

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