When I use the <%=...%> syntax and pass in a string with non-ascii characters, the string is decoded and outputed as ASCII. For example: <%="é"%> outputs é.
How can I make the views output the encoded characters instead?
1 Answer
Why do you want to HTML encode? If your page is utf-8 there should be no problem. But if you want to HTML encode you could use <%: in ASP.NET 4.0:
<%: "é" %>
and:
<%= HttpUtility.HtmlEncode("é") %>
in older versions.
Personally I would recommend you to set the requestEncoding and responseEncoding to utf-8 in the <globalization> element in your web.config and put a <meta charset="utf-8" /> (HTML5) tag in the head section of your master page and you should be fine.
4 Comments
Tristan St-Cyr
Perhaps I should've mentioned that the template is outputting the contents of a Javascript string. The actual output that I'm getting is é. If I use HtmlUtility.HtmlEncode I now get &#233 instead. Since this is in a quoted string, the encoding of the page doesn't seem to mather.
Darin Dimitrov
@Tristan St-Cyr, if you intend to pass any string or object to javascript I would recommend you using JSON, like this:
var jsVar = <%= new JavaScriptSerializer().Serialize(SomeObject) %>;. This will ensure safe encoding of everything and you could also pass entire object graphs to javascript.Tristan St-Cyr
Still not working. <%= new JavaScriptSerializer().Serialize("é") for example outputs: "é"
Darin Dimitrov
@Tristan St-Cyr, hmm, weird. It seems that you are HTML encoding the output. Normally it should output
var jsVar = "é";. You should not be html encoding it.