Special Characters showing up as gibberish

Hello!
We're using a large number of Edge documents to form a app. In the app we have a option that can change the language. (in this case, Spanish)
However on some pages, but not all, any character with a accent on it shows up as other characaters.
For example. The word "Anatomía" will appear as "AnatomÃa" Does anyone know why this may be? Like I mentioned, most other pages don't have this issue, and I dind't do any special formatting... just standard stuff Edge allows you to do by default.
Thanks!

Yep, it looks like something got munged in your copy and paste. There are a couple of things you can do:
Re-enter the codes manually by copying and pasting the accent from a native application like TextEdit or Notepad
Re-enter the codes manually by changing your keyboard or using the Unicode entry method on Windows, as resdesign suggests
Use the web shortcuts like é
Hope that helps!
-Elaine

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