" is on the official list of valid HTML 4 entities, but ' is not. From C.16. The Named Character Reference ‘: The named character reference ' (the apostrophe, U+0027) was introduced in XML 1.0 but does not appear in HTML. Authors should therefore use ' instead of ' to work as expected in HTML 4 user agents.
To escape ‘ you simly need to put another before: ” As the second answer shows it’s possible to escape single quote like this: result will be If you’re concatenating SQL into a VARCHAR to execute (i.e. dynamic SQL), then I’d recommend parameterising the SQL. This has the benefit of helping guard against SQL injection … Read more
This is dependent on the programming language and on its string handling options. For example, in Java strings, if you need a literal backslash in a string, you need to double it. So the regex \n must be written as “\\n”. If you plan to match a backslash using a regex, then you need to escape it twice … Read more
Use backslash “Workers\’_Compensation”; Inside a selector you would require 2 of them “Workers\\’_Compensation”; Check Fiddle
The specification defines the syntax for normal elements as: Normal elements can have text, character references, other elements, and comments, but the text must not contain the character U+003C LESS-THAN SIGN (<) or an ambiguous ampersand. Some normal elements also have yet more restrictions on what content they are allowed to hold, beyond the restrictions imposed by … Read more
See MySQL C API function mapping: http://mysql-python.sourceforge.net/MySQLdb.html
There are two easy and safe rules which work not only in sh but also bash. 1. Put the whole string in single quotes This works for all chars except single quote itself. To escape the single quote, close the quoting before it, insert the single quote, and re-open the quoting. sed command: sed -e “s/’/’\\\\”/g; 1s/^/’/; \$s/\$/’/” 2. … Read more
You need to escape the string you are writing out into DoEdit to scrub out the double-quote characters. They are causing the onclick HTML attribute to close prematurely. Using the JavaScript escape character, \, isn’t sufficient in the HTML context. You need to replace the double-quote with the proper XML entity representation, ".
The character ‘\’ is a special character and needs to be escaped when used as part of a String, e.g., “\”. Here is an example of a string comparison using the ‘\’ character: You can also perform direct character comparisons using logic similar to the following: