Reading a special character in VB

I'm trying to translate an AppleScript into VB and have gotten stuck at the point where the script looks to see if the first character of paragraph is a bullet. In AppleScript, "character 1 a string" returns unicode "<25CF>" when the bullet exists, which works just fine. In VB, I'm looking at ...Characters.Item(1).TextContents but getting a long string of integers which is not unicode and not ascii and not anything I can figure out how to work with. Can someone help?

Robert P. Kyle wrote:
So how do you incorporate special characters in a VB search? This doesn't work:
search ("--", False,False,indesign.idSpecialCharacters.idEmDash)
You can't use scripting constant - you need to use InDesign's metacharacter - the same you use in User Interface:
search ("--", False,False,"^_")
Full list is here:
http://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/InDesign/5.0/help.html?content=WSa285fff53dea4f86173837510 01ea8cb3f-712d.html
or UNICODE value:
search ("--", False,False,"<2014>")
Full list of hex values of meta characters you can find at the end of TaggedText spec pdf - CS4 version is here:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/InDesign/6.0/indesign_cs4_taggedtext.pdf
robin
www.adobescripts.com

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