I have a <INPUT NAME='name'> on a FORM and page charset is set to UTF-8.

I entered and submitted these characters: . (Hope you can see them.)

On the ACTION page, I have the following code:

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<%
 Dim Name,X,i
 Name=request.Form("name")
 X="ASCII"
 for i=1 to Len(Name)
    X=X & ":" & AscW(mid(Name,i,1))
 next
%>
<%=Name%>
<%=X%>

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The first line shows the expected output:
The second line shows: ASCII:194:169:230:175:8250:230:179:189:228:184:339

First character: good 194:169 is the copyright symbol
Second character: no good.  What is the number 8250!
Third character: good 230:179:189 is the UTF-8 encoding for
Fourth character: no good.  What is 339!

I capture the downloaded page in binary and the first line bytes are actually (hexadecimal):
C2 A9 E6 AF 9B E6 B3 BD E4 B8 9C.

Why does AscW produce different results from the string at certain bytes?  This problem makes the data unuseable.  I get the same results on two different IIS machines.  What have I done wrong?

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance