Escaping JavaScript string literals in views

Question

Is there a utility function for escaping JavaScript in ASP.NET MVC views? I often need to init a little snippet of JavaScript using some values from the view; for instance I

Answer 1

In .NET 4, The HttpUtility class has a variety of static encoding methods for various contexts, including a JavaScriptStringEncode method for this particular purpose.

It's often simpler to just use JSON deserialization, though.