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[minitech]

& #39; is an HTML character code, not an encoding issue... you'll probably need a regular expression, like so:

Dim re As New System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex("&#(\d+);", System.Text.RegularExpressions.RegexOptions.SingleLine)

Then you can match it with each string you're outputting and access the code:

For Each m As System.Text.RegularExpressions.Match In re.Match(my string)
     Dim cc As Integer = Integer.Parse(re.Groups(1).Value)
     Dim chr As Char = AscW(cc)
     (my string) = (my string).Remove(m.Index,m.Length).Insert(m.Index,chr)
Next

You've got to take into account things like ' too, though.