Single and double quotes entered in form field cause corruption?

Question

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.
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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.
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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?
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Do I have to escape the characters? How do I do this?
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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)
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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
create table “someschema”.“sometable”
(id number not null,
Name varchar2(20) not null,
Join_date sysdate
Active varchar2(1) := ‘A’
END TEST DATA:
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XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
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):
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env
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
crete new tableas follws
crate table “somesca”.“sometable”
har2(20) not null,
Join_date sysdate
Active varchar2(1) := ‘A’
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Answer 1

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
$trans_tbl[chr(34)] = '"' ;          //      quote
          $trans_tbl[chr(38)] = '&' ;          //      ampersand
          $trans_tbl[chr(60)] = '<' ;          //      less-than
          $trans_tbl[chr(62)] = '>' ;          //      more-than
          $trans_tbl[chr(128)] = '€' ;     //      euro
          $trans_tbl[chr(129)] = '€' ;      //     euro
          $trans_tbl[chr(130)] = '‚' ;      //     low quote
          $trans_tbl[chr(131)] = 'ƒ' ;      //     florin
          $trans_tbl[chr(132)] = '„' ;      //      double low quote
          $trans_tbl[chr(133)] = '…' ;      //     ellipsis
          $trans_tbl[chr(134)] = '†' ;     //     dagger
          $trans_tbl[chr(135)] = '‡' ;      //     double dagger
          $trans_tbl[chr(136)] = 'ˆ' ;      //     circumflex
          $trans_tbl[chr(137)] = '‰' ;      //     per thousand
          $trans_tbl[chr(138)] = 'Š' ;      //     S caron
          $trans_tbl[chr(139)] = '‹' ;      //     left angle quote
          $trans_tbl[chr(140)] = 'Œ' ;      //     OE ligature
          $trans_tbl[chr(142)] = 'Ž' ;      //     Z caron
          $trans_tbl[chr(145)] = '‘' ;      //     left single quote
          $trans_tbl[chr(146)] = '’' ;      //     right single quote
          $trans_tbl[chr(147)] = '“' ;      //     left double quote
          $trans_tbl[chr(148)] = '”' ;      //     right double quote
          $trans_tbl[chr(149)] = '•' ;      //     bullet
          $trans_tbl[chr(150)] = '–' ;      //     en dash
          $trans_tbl[chr(151)] = '—' ;      //     em dash
          $trans_tbl[chr(152)] = '˜' ;      //     small tilde
          $trans_tbl[chr(153)] = '™' ;      //     trademark
          $trans_tbl[chr(154)] = 'š' ;      //     small s caron
          $trans_tbl[chr(155)] = '›' ;      //     right angle quote
          $trans_tbl[chr(156)] = 'œ' ;      //     oe ligature
          $trans_tbl[chr(158)] = 'ž' ;      //      small z caron
          $trans_tbl[chr(159)] = 'Ÿ' ;      //     Y with diaeresis
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-Geoffrey