Classic ASP gremlims, getting a ? inserted into text whenever an HTML special character is used

<!DOCTYPE xhtml PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

> <html
> xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type"
> content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />