If your VB.NET page is displaying strange characters in place of symbols, you are missing some important encoding settings.
There are three places where you will need to add code.
  1. Web.config«
  2. HTML Header«
  3. VB.NET Code.«
Web.config
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<configuration>
  <system.web>
    <globalization fileEncoding="utf-8" requestEncoding="utf-8" responseEncoding="utf-8" />
  </system.web>
</configuration>

HTML Header
CFFCS | CarrzSynEdit: | HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language)
<meta charset="utf-8" />

VB.NET Code
CFFCS | CarrzSynEdit: | ASP.NET (VB/C#)
Response.Charset = "UTF-8"
Response.ContentEncoding = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8