Character conversion in .NET

[Gunslinger08]

Okay, so I'm getting this string from a web service that returns XML. It includes this: ampersand pound 39
This is supposedly equivalent to an apostrophe, but I can't find any method similar to Server.UrlDecode or Server.HtmlDecode to decode an entire string with these specially encoded characters. Does anyone know how this is encoded and how to decode it?

 

[itachi]

why are you encoding it if it's not a part of the url?

i'm guessing Server.UrlDecode perform uri decoding.. uri's are encoded in utf-8, characters that take up 2 bytes can't be encoded/decoded.
Server.HtmlDecode should only decode html escape characters (i.e., & = &amp.

have u tried changing the encoding of the xml message (utf-16 instead of utf-8)?