title: Special (or foreign countries) characters
body: <p>I am new to C# and was experimenting with the ASP.Net GridView (framework 3.5), and I found out a big problem when the gridView text contains the following:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>ñ/Ñ/á/Á/é/É/í/Í/ó/Ó/ú/Ú or a â, ê, î, ô, û, ë, ï, ü or even a ç</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>The results end up displaying something like this: <code>&amp;+#+237</code></p>
  
  <p>I made a mixture of pain by doing a table,dataset etc... to get the data from the database clean as the letter itself. I also tried making a method that cleaned the variables but it was a terrible IF.</p>
  
  <p>I was wondering if there was a way to make the letters appear as themselves (ñ as ñ not as &amp;+#+237) when extracting data from the gridview without getting the data directly from the database and without doing a lot of code. If there is not, is there a way to code efficiently clean them up?</p>