This is not a very big problem as it's font-specific, but I was curious about what was causing it.
I have a text with accented characters in Verdana font in OpenOffice Writer, e.g.
When I paste it into livecode, I getafin d'être le plus confiant possible avant de passer le véritable entretien
The htmlcode of the above with Chinese characters isafin d'黎re le plus confiant possible avant de passer le v駻itable entretien
whereas it SHOULD beafin d'黎re le plus confiant possible avant de passer le v駻itable entretien
(which would yield the correct accents)afin d'être le plus confiant possible avant de passer le véritable entretien.
Why is LC misreading the characters? Is it another version of Verdana than the one LC uses? This doesn't happen e.g. with Tahoma or Times New Roman.