Character conversion in ASP

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I have a generic ASP page that creates MD5 hashkey, gets included in more
than 1 other ASP page. Other including ASP pages seem to be setting charset
meta tag to various non-ascii charsets. I found how to convert in ASP.NET,
but not ASP? The same string "(e-mail address removed)" generates different keys in
different charsets... I tried the "@CODEPAGE=1252" directive at the top
of the hash asp page, no luck.

Thanks in advance!