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When dealing with single and double quotes on the html or asp page, it is sometimes necessary to change them to so called character entity. Here’re the most common replacements I use:

& — &
‘ — ' or '
> — >
< — &lt;
” — &quot;

The character entities like &#39; obviously exist for other characters, they just need to be found on the net.

For some reason, &apos; doesn’t work but whe replacements with # (hash) do, so they should be used.

In order to replace the necessary character, in Java the following line can be added:

taskNotes = taskNotes.replaceAll(”‘”,”&#39;”);