Hi John,
For the character formatting, are you using the default "BoundField"? If
so, gridview's boundfield will perform html encoding on boundfield
content(when set via databinding) so as to avoid some potential malicious
injected script code:
#BoundField.HtmlEncode Property
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.ui.webcontrols.boundfiel
d.htmlencode.aspx
You can try turn it off if you're sure the characters in the content is
safe and non characters in it will bread page's html source(e.g it doesn't
contain chars like '<', '>'....).
Sincerely,
Steven Cheng
Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead
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