What would you expect? You did not properly specify the charset. It should be
<html>
<head>
<!--
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
</head>
<body>
And, of course, you need to actually write the text in Unicode and save your file in UTF-8. :-)
And perhaps you should not forget about RTL design:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/direction[
^].
—SA