I would like to use a single quote character in the title of my forum to achieve Pilot's Lounge. When I specified it in the UI, it worked fine. However, when I try setting the variable DISCOURSE_TITLE variable in app.yml to Pilot's Lounge, the title is truncated at the single quote. I’ve had a look at https://yaml.org/spec/current.html#id2534365, but using '' (two consecutive single quotes) doesn’t work. I’ve also tried "Pilot's Lounge", "Pilot''s Lounge", and other variations but none work. How is this done?

Did you try an apostrophe ’ instead of the typewriter apostrophe ' ? I’ve used this in the app.yml previously to set a site title. Wrap the title in quotes " " and it works fine.

Try: DISCOURSE_TITLE: "Pilot\'s Lounge"

Unfortunately that generates an error: ( ): found unknown escape character while parsing a quoted scalar at line 69 column 20 -e LANG=en_US.UTF-8 YAML syntax error. Please check your containers/*.yml config files.

Here are all that I’ve tried thus far: DISCOURSE_TITLE: "Pilot\'s Lounge" <== GENERATES an ERROR DISCOURSE_TITLE: 'Pilot\'s Lounge' <== GENERATES an ERROR DISCOURSE_TITLE: Pilot\'s Lounge <== Slash escape DISCOURSE_TITLE: "Pilot's Lounge" <== Surrounding Double quote, single apostrophe DISCOURSE_TITLE: "Pilot''s Lounge" <== Surrounding Double quote, double apostrophe DISCOURSE_TITLE: Pilot''s Lounge <== double apostrophe DISCOURSE_TITLE: 'Pilot''s Lounge' <== Surrounding single quotes, double apostrophe DISCOURSE_TITLE: 'Pilot's Lounge' <== GENERATES an ERROR

Yes, and I can’t think of any other forms to try. I’ll come back to this once I’ve had a break.

@Stephen : I’ll try that. I’ll copy/paste the character from your post into my file.

I just tried it again on a test site and it worked fine, should resolve your issue.

lol. I’m still rebuilding my site. Yes, that worked. :partying_face: The wrapping quotes weren’t required.

How to escape apostrophe in app.yml

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) June 22, 2020, 7:00pm 5

Wow that is a comprehensive list. I’m surprised one of those did not work!

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How to escape apostrophe in app.yml

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