asp.net - Successfully posting html encoded and including a pound sign to a VB.net method -

i posting form sends email, html part of email body created , posted jquery , ajax post method web method in asp.net using vb.

here's snippet

var tbl = $('<table/>'); var paymentcell = $('<td/>').html('&#163;' + thisamount).appendto(row); $(row).appendto(tbl);       // generates element in question 

this, amongst other things posted data variable ajax, data variable looks this:

 var data = '{ "emailhtml":"' + escape((wrap).html()) + '"}'; 

this decoded on server side this:

emailhtml = httputility.urldecode(emailhtml) 

this works fine except pound signs, not decoded properly. have tried using £ per above, , £ display html characters getting weird ? symbol returned in html decoded @ server end... there way round this?

have tried without escape() call, jquery allows built-in encoding, think value being double-encoded.

make sure using utf-8 encoding , charset in application, this:

web.config:

<system.web>     <globalization requestencoding="utf-8" responseencoding="utf-8" /> </system.web> 

html pages:

<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />