How to find and replace using AppleScript for TextWrangler?

I ran into a problem after exporting my book into EPUB from Indesign CS4. In this book the Latin diphthong æ is used. Unfortuately it didn't translate very well into the EPUB or corresponding XHTML files. Is there a way to do a batch change using AppleScript to change these symbols √¶ into æ which is the code for the diphthong? If so, how?
I also have an issue with the symbol †, in some of the documents it appears as this ‚Ä†. Can I do a batch change for that as well? If so, how?
I'm new to using AppleScript so I appreciate all of the help. Thank you so much!!

Hello
Here's some observations -
æ = U+00E6
= <c3 a6> (UTF-8)
= <c3 a6> (MacRoman) = √¶
† = U+2020
= <e2 80 a0> (UTF-8)
= <e2 80 a0> (MacRoman) = ‚Ä†
which likely mean that your source data is text in UTF-8 but destination (or viewer or intermediate converter) is interpreting the data as text in MacRoman.
Make sure you properly declare the encoding of XHTML or EPUB document as UTF-8.
Good luck,
H

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