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I have to store various HTML named character references for the following purposes:

  1. Escaping special characters myStringBuilder.Replace("À", WebHelper.Agrave)

  2. Insert spaces in legacy reports ReportButtons.Controls.Add(New LiteralControl(WebHelper.Space))

This is the way I used to store until now:

public static class WebHelper
{
    #region [ Fields ]

    public const string Agrave = "À";

    public const string Space = " ";

    #endregion
}

Is this Single-Generic-Helper-Class the best way to solve this problem? Should all my programs reference it?

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Welcome to Code Review! It's easier to help you if you also provide a bit code about how you're using this in the context of your real application. Those "number of reasons" for why you need this can be more important than you think. –  Simon Forsberg♦ Jul 2 '14 at 11:17
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Calling   just “space” is confusing. It's not the normal space, it's a non-breaking space. –  svick Jul 4 '14 at 16:13

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Why not just use the Server.HtmlEncode function?

Here is a brief description of what it does:

Any ASCII code character whose code is greater-than or equal to 0x80 is converted to &#<number>, where <number> is the ASCII character value.

It also converts common ascii characters such as <, >, &, and " to their html character references.

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