Ping and editing and double quotes

Couple of issues using the Ping to comment and send email.
1) It appears that using double quotes in either a comment on a Ping invite or a Recent Activity Item appears to cause problems. When referencing other songs/album/content I tend to quote them in the recent activity item comment and this causes an error.
2) Not sure exactly how this happens, but a couple of times I have managed to delete my whole comment. It seems to occur when deleting in the middle of paragraph of text. Anyway, when this occurs the undo does not seem to work.
Anybody notice these behaviors?

Thanks for the tip! This worked for me for my invitation to friends to the "Ping" service. Non-specific error with quotes, but with Quotes removed, works fine.

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Single and double quotes entered in form field cause corruption?

I am creating a database change request system using in APEX 2.2 and the main form has a description field (clob) and a API_description field (varchar2(4000)) that are text area fields on the page. The form seems to have trouble when the string data entered into the text area page items on the form contain single and double quotes.
 
I have pasted my test data below in this problem description(this is not true sql but it gets the point accross). I use the wizard created insert process to get the data into the db from the text fields in the wizard generated form, then use the wizard created fetch process to get the data back out and rendered on the same form. When I use the test data below, sometimes a few characters dissappear from my input data on the way out, sometime form fields go away, and their html is interspersed with the previous form field's data on the page. And I get different results on different tests with the same data.
 
Do I have to do something special for a vanilla htmldb text page item on a form to be able to receive single and double quotes in the string input in order to avoid that string data confusing the processing on the way in to the Database or on the way out for rendering?
 
Do I have to escape the characters? How do I do this?
 
The "varchar2(1) := ‘A’" part of the below TEST DATA string seem to cause the most trouble. The behavior is erratic - sometimes the pattern works, sometimes html is interspersed in one place, sometimes another (on the way back out)
 
START TEST DATA:
Add column pcl3_data_ind varchar2(1) to edc_tran,edc_log, edc_recreate_tran table
Or
Create a file with following sql in it
Insert into sometable values(‘A’,sysdate);
Or
create new table as follows
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(id number not null,
Name varchar2(20) not null,
Join_date sysdate
Active varchar2(1) := ‘A’
END TEST DATA:
 
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Here is an example of the test data being displayed after being fetched back out of oracle (this will look like gibberish when rendered in the forum system (end of problem description except for example):
 
env
Add column pcl3_data_ind varchar2(1) to edc_tran,edc_log, edc_recreate_tran table
Or
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Insert into sometable values(‘A’,sysdate);
Or
crete new tableas follws
crate table “somesca”.“sometable”
har2(20) not null,
Join_date sysdate
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woextarea>
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I found a good php related post that has a nice set of the potentially problematic characters (this is in the context of word pasted into IE I think). I am pretty confident that at least single curly quotes do not work well in apex 2.2). I would not be surprised if some of the others were trouble as well.:
http://lists.evolt.org/archive/Week-of-Mon-20030602/141975.html
here is the list
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 $trans_tbl[chr(153)] = '™' ; // trademark
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-Geoffrey

Outlook 2010 apostrophe, single and double quotes are changes to question mark while sending mails to other internet receipient.

We are using MS Outlook 2010 as our mail client. But we have noticed that whenevr we sent a mail to any other internet mail recipient all the "apostrophe", "single" and "double quotes" have automatically converted to ?. We have
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Hi,
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Send an email from the webmail, ask the recipient if this issue persists.
As far as I know, this problem is always related to the encoding for outgoing messages, and here I suggest you try UTF-8:
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If I create a sequence
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9
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B10501_01/server.920/a96540/sql_elements9a.htm#27571
10
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14200/sql_elements008.htm#sthref723
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Message was edited by: Etbin
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Problems parsing double quote

I have been trying to figure out my problem for several hours, but still didn't get it. Hope to get an idea from you guys. My code is as follows:
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(1)
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(2)
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DB Server 2008 R2 RTM
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Just wanted to share my experience of this for anyone else since I wasted a morning on it today.
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