Avoid redundancy of HTML entities in .NET framework

Question

I have to store various HTML named character references for the following purposes:

1. Escaping special characters myStringBuilder.Replace("À", WebHelper.Agrave)

2. Insert spaces in legacy reports ReportButtons.Controls.Add(New LiteralControl(WebHelper.Space))

This is the way I used to store until now:

public static class WebHelper
{
 #region [ Fields ]
 public const string Agrave = "À";
 public const string Space = " ";
 #endregion
}

Is this Single-Generic-Helper-Class the best way to solve this problem? Should all my programs reference it?

• svick: Calling   just "space" is confusing. It's not the normal space, it's a non-breaking space.

Answer 1

Why not just use the Server.HtmlEncode function?

Here is a brief description of what it does:

Any ASCII code character whose code is greater-than or equal to 0x80 is converted to &#<number>, where <number> is the ASCII character value.

It also converts common ascii characters such as <, >, &, and " to their html character references.