Title: punctuation marks in permalink
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# punctuation marks in permalink

 *  [Ravi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ravidreams/)
 * (@ravidreams)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/punctuation-marks-in-permalink/)
 * Hi,
 * The site is [http://www.pgmsemblog.com/](http://www.pgmsemblog.com/)
 * I am seeing punctuation marks in permalink resulting in page not found errors.
   I am seeing this problem after upgrading to 2.8.4 from 2.6. why isn’t the url
   sanitized?
 * For example,
 * [http://www.pgmsemblog.com/2009/09/08/digg?s-growth-is-accelerating:-what?s-next?/](http://www.pgmsemblog.com/2009/09/08/digg?s-growth-is-accelerating:-what?s-next?/)
 * The punctuation marks themselves are wrong. Digg’s is converted into Digg?s
 * Any help will be much appreciated.
 * Thanks.

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/punctuation-marks-in-permalink/#post-1206311)
 * That’s because you’re pasting non-standard apostrophes in with your post titles.
   Try typing your post title in. Or pasting from a plain text editor only.
 *  Thread Starter [Ravi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ravidreams/)
 * (@ravidreams)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/punctuation-marks-in-permalink/#post-1206393)
 * Hi esmi,
 * Thx for the reply.
 * I understand that we can avoid this by typing. But there are thousands of old
   posts having this problem.
 * Is there a way to fix them?
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/punctuation-marks-in-permalink/#post-1206425)
 * You could try using the [Search & Replace plugin](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search-and-replace/).

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## Tags

 * [encoding](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/encoding/)
 * [permalink](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/permalink/)
 * [punctuation](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/punctuation/)
 * [special-characters](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/special-characters/)
 * [url](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/url/)

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 * Last reply from: [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/punctuation-marks-in-permalink/#post-1206425)
 * Status: not resolved

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