How to find and replace unrecognizable characters in multiple files of a folder with the correct character using command prompt, power shell or notepad ++?

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How to find and replace unrecognizable characters in multiple files of a folder with the correct character using Command Prompt, Power Shell or Notepad ++?
On the web page, it shows as a � character and in the file, when opened with Notepad++ it shows as x92, x93, x94 etc.

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Posted 6-May-21 8:07am

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Member 15187035 6-May-21 14:36pm

By "file", I mean the "source" file of the webpage with the .html extension but which I edit with Notepad ++

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