1.

 

Cute Editor doesn't have code to convert encoding.

 

To display the string from SQL Server, the following code should work.

 

<%@LANGUAGE="VBSCRIPT" CODEPAGE="65001"%>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<%
Response.Write "My String from DB"
%>

2. Note that there are many encoding schemes in the Unicode standard, but SQL Server only supports one: UTF-16. You need to use N prefix in front of all columns – i.e. UPDATE Table SET Field = N’Unicode Value’;.  Otherwise you will have problems.