How to escape apostrophe in app.yml

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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?

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Try:

  DISCOURSE_TITLE: "Pilot\'s Lounge"
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Unfortunately that generates an error:

(<unknown>): 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.
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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
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Wow that is a comprehensive list. I’m surprised one of those did not work!

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

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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.

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

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

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