C# - Unreadable Characters In Word After Export

I have an asp.net page that exports some data to Microsoft Word 2003. The source of the data is what users have typed into an ajax control toolkit HtmlEditor on an input page. All works well unless the user has pasted text from a Word document into the HtmlEditor.

The html that is copied from Word looks like this:

<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><font color="#000000"><br />
The Blah Blah Blah of Southern California's blah blah qualify for a blah of "Rating" with a "hold" status. </font></p>

When the content is rendered in Word, it looks like this:

The Blah Blah Blah of Southern California’s blah blah qualify for a blah of “Rating†with a “hold†status.

Any help on this? I have no problem when I force the HTML into a div and show it on the page. It's only on the export to Word that it gets messed up. This happens whether I paste the Word text right into the HtmlEditor or use the Paste From MS Word (with cleanup) button.