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

For those who will find this question: Do not use escape method it has been removed from the Web Use encodeURIComponent() or encodeURI() instead
encodeURIComponent()
encodeURI()