special french characters not converting

&eacute and so on are not converting to what they should.

any help, and when I try to validate the page I get an error.

relating to the utf-8

Sorry, I am unable to validate this document because on line 125 it contained one or more bytes that I cannot interpret as utf-8 (in other words, the bytes found are not valid values in the specified Character Encoding). Please check both the content of the file and the character encoding indication.

The error was: utf8 “\xC9” does not map to Unicode

never had this before.

Thanks in advance