CommerceContext.Current.Resources?

Seeing some strange behavior.

I have a Custom resource with about 23 different properties.  One of
the properties has an empty string for its value -- ''.

However, when I launch my site in debug mode this next line seems to
give me a tilde with a zero -- '~0'.

Any ideas?

CommerceContext.Current.Resources[resourceName][keyName].ToString()


Thanks!!

Glen Fergo