Title: Quote marks escaped
Last modified: July 1, 2024

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# Quote marks escaped

 *  Resolved [Trippetchz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trippetchz/)
 * (@trippetchz)
 * [2 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/quote-marks-escaped/)
 * Hi there,
 * Thanks for great software!
 * I’ve noticed some people with an apostrophe in their last name, that this gets
   a backslash in the backend:
 * e.g. Someone O\’Callaghan
 * ![](https://i0.wp.com/i.postimg.cc/TPqF2N80/Screenshot-from-2024-07-01-22-13-
   01.png?ssl=1)
 * Could that be improved?

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 *  Plugin Author [Roland Barker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xnau/)
 * (@xnau)
 * [2 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/quote-marks-escaped/#post-17861600)
 * The plugin does not normally do this for apostrophes, so probably the backslash
   is in the database value. You can check for this by opening your database in 
   a tool like phpMyAdmin and look at the name field. If you see backslashes, you
   can manually remove them.
 * You may want to figure out how the backslash got in there so you can avoid it
   in the future. The plugin doesn’t add backslashes.
 * When you’re importing data, don’t escape apostrophes. You can either use an enclosure(
   this surrounds the data with double quotes so the apostrophe isn’t interpreted
   as a single quote) or you can substitute the single quote in the name with a 
   real apostrophe or use an HTML entity.
 *  Thread Starter [Trippetchz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trippetchz/)
 * (@trippetchz)
 * [2 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/quote-marks-escaped/#post-17863416)
 * Great, thank you for that insight! 🙂

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 * Last reply from: [Trippetchz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trippetchz/)
 * Last activity: [2 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/quote-marks-escaped/#post-17863416)
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