title: Special characters not showing in pandoc html output
body: <p>I am trying to get special characters (for foreign surnames) working in pandoc. I followed the instructions <a href="http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a> and made sure all special characters are represented using UTF encoding (as per <a href="http://www.fileformat.info/info/charset/UTF-8/list.htm" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this page</a>. I chose HTML Entity (decimal) option. The resulting files work well when converting to docx or pdf but not html. Is there an encoding that will work for all three output types, or do I need to include some other option?</p>
  <p>Here is a line of markdown code for conversion using the special character encoding</p>
  <pre class="lang-markdown prettyprint-override"><code>some example text with special characters &amp;#197;, &amp;#228;, &amp;#246;
  </code></pre>
  <p>which should print as</p>
  <blockquote>
  <p>some example text with special characters Å, ä, ö</p>
  </blockquote>
  <p>pandoc commands</p>
  <pre><code>pandoc example.md -o example.docx  # Works
  
  pandoc example.md -o example.pdf   # Works
  
  pandoc example.md -o example.html  # Doesn't work
  </code></pre>
  <p>running via inconv does not change output behaviour</p>
  <pre><code>iconv -t utf-8 example.md | pandoc -o example.html  # Doesn't work
  </code></pre>