Question

I am trying to HTML encode a string that contains alpha, beta, and gamma characters (α, β, γ
). Unfortunately, using the System.Web.HttpUtility.HtmlEncode is not encoding these characters. Is there some other function in the .NET library that would encode these to HTML?

Answer 1

Not aware of any built in tool for this, but you can use this handy function:

public string ForceHtmlEncode(string input)
{
    return string.Concat(input.Select(c => "&#" + (int)c + ";"));
}

This will simply convert all characters in the string to HTML entities.