title_body: Publishing HTML to Kindle - Encoding problem
upvoted_answer: Most likely your source files aren't properly encoded. It's not sufficient to add utf-8 charset declarations, you'll need to actually save your source files as utf-8 files. (If you happen to use the old Mobipocket Creator, you'll also need to save all HTML files with a BOM (byte-order mark).
  
  If your source file is an ePub, open and save it with Calibre Editor or Sigil. This'll re-save them with the proper encoding. 
  
  If you hand-crafted your book, open all HTML files with Notepad++, change the encoding to utf-8 and re-save them.