Special double quotes and apostrophes in java help

We are writing help for an application and using doctor help to generate it. The help is written in Word and converted to html. Word however, converts all the " characters to those "squiggly ones" which point towards the word they're quoting.
When we viewed the generated help with java help those squiggly were not rendered. They are rendered as a square which means java help does not understand them.
I'm sure someone else must have encountered this issue.
Please can you tell me how to successfully render the squiggly double quotes in java help?

You need the following encoding for those characters:
“
”
using an xml encoder, e.g. xmlenc solves this issue, otherwise you must do it manually.
But I have a related problem. When characters in the XML file are encoded
they are only displayed correctly if some non encoded character follows.
When there are two successive encoded characters then only the first one
is displayed correctly. Putting a whitespace in between them displays both
characters correctly, but with the whitespace in between.
I guess there is an issue with the XML parser. Changing the encoding of the XML file does not help.
example: TOC.xml file (displayed correctly in IE)
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='ISO-8859-9' standalone='yes' ?>
<!DOCTYPE toc PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems Inc.//DTD JavaHelp TOC Version 1.0//EN" "http://java.sun.com/products/javahelp/toc_1_0.dtd">
<toc version="1.0">
<tocitem text="images "/>
<tocitem text="ĞĞRENCİ MODÜLÜ " target="index"/>
</toc>
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Back in August 2020, when I first asked about fixes, I was told to change the Title/Encoding setting of Page Properties to "Western European" -- which I tried, but it didn't work then, and it doesn't work now ... and even if it did, it wouldn't be a proper fix for the problem as I have plenty of good reasons for wanting my HTML page Title/Encoding set to Unicode (UTF-8), not Western European ("charset=iso-8859-1").
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