jrequest::getVar does not get variable values if they have a hash sign

Question

Hi

I am using jrequest::getVar to get the values of some variables in my site. Now this works fine in most cases. But if a variable's value has a hash sign (#) in it, the request fails and execution stops there.

I tried getting the values after encoding them as well but it doesn't help.

Can someone please let me know what would be the best way to get this to work.

Thanks.