JQuery Encode URL

I have the following code snippet:

function autosave() 
{ 
    setTimeout("autosave()", 15000); 
 
    var did = $("#did").val(); 
    var content = $('.nicEdit-frame').contents().find('#nicEditContent').html();
 
    if (content.length > 0) 
    { 
        $.ajax( 
        { 
            type: "POST", 
            url: "inc/autosave.class.php", 
            data:  "did=" + did + "&content=" + content,
	            contentType: "application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=ISO-8859-15",
            cache: false, 
            success: function(message) 
            { 
                $("#message").empty().append(message); 
            }
        }); 
    } 
}

HTML:

What this does is takes what is in a textarea and sends it over to the autosave.class.php, which sends it off to the MySQL database.
The problem is that the data ends up in the database cut off, showing only the first few sentences of it; often cutting off at the quotation mark.
I am positive that this isn't the PHP to MySQL issue (already tested that), it's the AJAX/JQuery data to PHP part.
Is it the lack of serializing/encoding? If so, how would I fix it?

 

Never mind, I solved it - it was a matter of encoding &s.

 

& should be &, no?