[vivaldirules]

I'm having a new frustration with BD today with diacritical marks. I took a text file that didn't use diacritical marks, opened it with BD, fixed it up with added images and such and also the correct diacritic marks (well, I think they're correct) like: ō, ū, ā, which I copied individually from Wikipedia into BD. When I create an LRF ebook, I get:

& # 3 3 3 ; (I've put spaces between the actual characters so they don't get interpreted by the forum software)

instead of ō, etc. So I diddled with the language setting and have tried all of them to no avail. I did this by saving the file, changing the language setting in BD, exiting, and then reopening the file with BD. No change. So I saved an HTML file and then opened it with Internet Explorer. No problem - the characters are correctly displayed. So I opened that HTML with BD and now the problem characters are totally missing. I'm at a loss at how to get these characters inserted into BD so that I can create ebooks with it. Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong?