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(

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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

Answer 3

U+0027 is Unicode for apostrophe (')

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