Convert EBCDIC To UTF8?

I want to convert an ebcdic string to a utf8 string. I use the below online tool to test this, which is very good, for conversion related stuffs.

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I want to convert £Ë†â€°¢â€°¢¤£â€ ø which is in EBCDIC to UTF8 string, which is thisisutf8 You can use the above link to test.

I refered the below article on how to read EBCDIC data in .net

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Then I used the same method to read the ebcdic data

Dim encoding As System.Text.Encoding = _
System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding(37)

However I am not getting the expected data

Here is my code, to get the result into a atring, a.

Dim a As String = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetString(System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding(37).GetBytes("£Ë†â€°¢â€°¢¤£â€ ø"))