Converting special charactes such as ü and à back to their original, latin alphbet counterparts in C#

Question

I have been given an export from a MySQL database that seems to have had it\'s encoding muddled somewhat over time and contains a mix of HTML char codes such as

Answer 1

I've been troubled by this char problem before. Solution:

My .(cs)html file was UTF-8; I converted to UTF-8Y (UTF-8 with a BOM).