Question

I have an MVC Razor view

@{
ViewBag.Title = "Index";
var c = (char)146;
var c2 = (short)'’';
}
<h2>@c --- @c2 --’-- ‘Why Oh Why’ & &#146;</h2> 
@String.Format("hi {0} there", (char)146)

characters stored in my database in varchar fields are not rendering to the browser.
This example demonstrates how character 146 doesn’t show up
How do I make them render?

[EDIT]

When I do this the character 146 get converted to UNICODE 8217 but if 146 is attempted to be rendered directly on the browser it fails

    public ActionResult Index()
    {

        using (var context = new DataContext())
        {
            var uuuuuggghhh = (from r in context.Projects
                               where r.bizId == "D11C6FD5-D084-43F0-A1EB-76FEED24A28F"
                              select r).FirstOrDefault();

            if (uuuuuggghhh != null)
            {
                var ca = uuuuuggghhh.projectSummaryTxt.ToCharArray();
                ViewData.Model = ca[72]; // this is the character in question
                return View();
            }
        }


        return View();
    }

Answer 1

We finally agreed that the data was corrupt we have asked users who can’t see this character rendered to fix the source data