Escape all special characters in a string that is sent by jquery ajax

Question

I am trying to send text in key value pairs while doing a contentType: \"application/json; charset=utf-8\", ajax post to a web service. The problem I am facing

Answer 1

Why not use escape?

escape(text);

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/window.escape

EDIT!!!!

As mentioned in comments, this is deprecated.

The deprecated escape() method computes a new string in which certain characters have been replaced by a hexadecimal escape sequence. Use encodeURI or encodeURIComponent instead.

Instead use one of the following:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/encodeURI

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/encodeURIComponent