使用.net将字符转换为html等效项

Question

I have a text document that is a roster of licensees. I am looping through this document to create a html table of this data. I've come across names with non standard characters.

This is one of them

Aimeé

I tried running all the inputs through the following function, but when it comes across the above character it doesn't replace it.

Function ReplaceBadCharacters(ByVal input As String) As String
  Return input.Replace(Chr(233), "é")
End Function

How can I replace each character with the html equivalent?

EDIT

When I debug the above function it shows the input as Aime[] and not Aimeé.

In Chrome it looks like this Aime

Answer 1

You don't need to do that.
As long as your page is encoded as UTF8, the characters will work fine.

However, you do need to call Server.HtmlEncode to escape HTML special characters.
(Unless you're printing the strings in a <%: %> block or a Razor @ block, which escapes them for you)

Answer 2

é is in the current ASCII char set. If you put that into the HTML, it will render correctly (just like how it shows up correctly in the browser when you look at this page)

but if you want to replace all instances of it, use this instead é

input.Replace("é", "é")