How to return '£' in RESTfull web services as stream

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I'm developing a RESTfull web services using WCF. In this service I'm returning a XML in Stream format which contains '£'. I get this in symbol in XML but on client side I get the '?' instead of '£'.

C#

public Stream HandleMessageStream()
{
    StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(request);
    string text = "<price>£ 10.00</price>";
    UTF8Encoding encoding = new UTF8Encoding();
    MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream(encoding.GetBytes(text));
    WebOperationContext.Current.OutgoingResponse.ContentType = "text/html";
    return ms;
}

I tried with different encoding but didn't find the answer.
Can anyone help me?

Posted 15-May-13 20:42pm

Bhushan Chandane

Updated 16-May-13 3:54am

Richard C Bishop

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skydger 16-May-13 9:45am

Have you considered to use XmlWriter instead of this?

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RaisKazi · Answer 1 · 2013-05-16T04:09:00

Solution 2

Try by using "U+00A3". Its a unicode for "£"(Pound sign). Refer below link for "List of Unicode characters".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unicode_characters

I copied this idea of solution from below answer of Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov.
What is this ASCII character code ?

Posted 16-May-13 4:09am

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Bhushan Chandane 16-May-13 23:49pm

If i put "U+00A3" instead of "£" in string that is like "<price>'U+00A3' 10.00</price>" then it considers "U+00A3" as part of the string and does not parse it to "£".