Special character causes "A potentially dangerous Request.Form value"
<p>I'm building a footnote editor for a specific need and I need a drop list that shows special characters such as a dagger (&amp;#134).  Not sure if it matters, but the drop list is in a ajax modal popup form. Whenever I try to display the popup form, I get the error "<strong>A potentially dangerous Request.Form value was detected from the client (ctl00$MainContent$ucFootNoteList$DropDownList1="*, &amp;#134").</strong>"</p>

<p>I tried adding 
    &lt;httpRuntime requestValidationMode="2.0" /&gt;
to the Web.config file.</p>

<p>How do I show a special character in this scenario without this error coming up?</p>
