Can MVC2 or MVC3 html.routelink contain & laquo & & raquo?

Question

What is the syntax for displaying this? My program will always display & laquo; literally in the pagination assistant that I am creating, and since switching to MVC3 it seems impossible to even crack it with Eval (string.FromCharCode)

Answer 1

Just use the appropriate UTF-8 character, and the HTML helper will take care of its encoding:

@Html.RouteLink("«", new { action = "navigate", page = 1 }) @Html.RouteLink("»", new { action = "navigate", page = 3 }) 

Answer 2

As long as you use UTF-8 as your character set, then displaying "directly" (without encoding) is perfectly valid XHTML.