JsonResult parsing special chars as \u0027 (apostrophe)

Question

I am in the process of converting some of our web "services" to MVC3 from WCF Rest.

Our old web services returned JSON from POCO's just fine using: [WebGet(.... ResponseFormat=WebMessageFormat.Json]

In my controller to return back a simple poco I'm using a JsonResult as the return type, and creating the json with Json(someObject, ...).

In the WCF Rest service, the apostrophes and special chars are formatted cleanly when presented to the client.

In the MVC3 controller, the apostrophes appear as \u0027.

Any thoughts? I'm new to serializing JSON so any pointers would be a huge help.

Example response: WCF Rest: {"CategoryId":8,"SomeId":6,"Name":"Richie's House"}

MVC3: {"CategoryId":8,"SomeId":6,"Name":"Richie\u0027s House"}

score 11 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 16 '11 at 21:33

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That shouldn't be any problem, as both representations are equivalent:

var a = {"CategoryId":8,"SomeId":6,"Name":"Richie\u0027s House"};
alert(a.Name);

alerts Richie's House.

answered Feb 16 '11 at 21:33

Darin Dimitrov

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Oh...my... gosh..... My browser addon on my desktop was just formatting it to make it readable... grrrr I need more coffee. Sorry to waste your time. – Richard Feb 16 '11 at 21:42

score 2 · Answer 2 · edited Jun 12 '20 at 11:30

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Just do:

yourObject.Name = yourObject.Name.replace("'", "\\u027");

So, if you try to alert in javascript or show in a browser, it will appears like:

Richie's House

edited Jun 12 '20 at 11:30

Venrix

answered Jan 22 '14 at 20:07

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 23 '15 at 17:29

1

U+0027 is Unicode for apostrophe (')

So, special characters are returned in Unicode but will show up properly when rendered on the page.

answered Feb 23 '15 at 17:29

Venkata Krishna

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