Title: Escape characters not working
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Escape characters not working

 *  Resolved [gugtavas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gugtavas/)
 * (@gugtavas)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/escape-characters-not-working/)
 * Hi!
 * I love this plugin, but I never could use the tradional brazilian date format
   because it escapes characters incorrectly when edited on the events calendar 
   configurations, such as “Date with year”, “date without year” and so on.
 * The format should be something like this: “j \d\e F \d\e Y”, which would output“
   21 de Outubro de 2014” (21 of October of 2014).
 * However, it outputs “21 \21\UTC outubro \21\UTC 2014”. The escaped characters
   are displayed as date output, and not actually escaped.
 * I’ve tested without any other plugins activated and with many versions, but it
   never worked. What could it be? Is there any workaround?
 * Thanks in advance!
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/the-events-calendar/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/the-events-calendar/)

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 *  Plugin Contributor [leahkoerper](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leahkoerper/)
 * (@leahkoerper)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/escape-characters-not-working/#post-5408720)
 * Hi gugtavas,
 * Thanks for bringing this up. I want to consult with one of our developers to 
   see what could be done about this. I’ll post again here once I’ve had a chance
   to chat with her. Thanks for your patience while we look into this!
 * Best,
    Leah
 *  Plugin Contributor [leahkoerper](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leahkoerper/)
 * (@leahkoerper)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/escape-characters-not-working/#post-5408730)
 * Hi gugtavas,
 * Our dev looked into this and found the issue- our system is saving the date formats
   in the database with double slashes (so instead of \d it’s \\d). Please try using
   [this snippet](https://gist.github.com/jazbek/da9ff1daf778b2f36e0d) and let me
   know if that works. I’ve also ticketed this issue to be fixed in a future build.
 * Thank you,
    Leah
 *  Plugin Contributor [leahkoerper](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leahkoerper/)
 * (@leahkoerper)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/escape-characters-not-working/#post-5408825)
 * Hi there,
 * I wanted to post here and update you. Although we weren’t able to get a fix for
   the issue your reported into our upcoming 3.9 release, it is still on our list
   to get corrected. Thank you for reporting the problem, and for your patience 
   and support while we get a solid fix in place. We’ll update you when a solution
   is ready to go.
 * Best,
    Leah

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## Tags

 * [date](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/date/)
 * [date format](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/date-format/)
 * [escaping](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/escaping/)

 * 3 replies
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 * Last reply from: [leahkoerper](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leahkoerper/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/escape-characters-not-working/#post-5408825)
 * Status: resolved