Erik, Magnus, I have made the change per your suggestion: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mchung/jdk9/webrevs/8169925/webrev.01/
Jeannette, Jeff, and I went through all .md files and I think asm.md is the only one got the characters messed up. These files are contributed by Jeannette. Also, per Naoto, cldr.md are now in both java.base and jdk.localedata. thanks Mandy