# Quotes in full name mess up quote markdown

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/quotes-in-full-name-mess-up-quote-markdown/391153
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [December 12, 2025, 3:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quotes-in-full-name-mess-up-quote-markdown/391153 "2025-12-12T15:54:28Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![RGJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/rgj/32/523185_2.png) [@RGJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RGJ)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2025, 3:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quotes-in-full-name-mess-up-quote-markdown/391153/1 "2025-12-12T15:54:28Z")

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- Disable “prioritize username in UX”
- Enable “display name on posts”
- Have a user with quotes in their name
- Try to quote them

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/0/0/a/00a2d886ca1b4c124db03944d8b69160460bacd3.png)

Using single quotes in the markdown resolves this specific issue, but it would of course cause issues with names with a single quote, which is probably more common.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/d/6/5/d659f0b1cd8cd81ec52f196ac94fff563986554b.png)

Is there a safe way of escaping quote characters in MD ?

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### Author: ![Teafh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/teafh/32/269081_2.png) [@Teafh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Teafh)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2025, 4:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quotes-in-full-name-mess-up-quote-markdown/391153/3 "2025-12-12T16:09:17Z")

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It is a #Contribute > Feature :zany_face:

> [@Quoting broken when name matches username](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quoting-broken-when-name-matches-username/217633/22):
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> Merged and deployed [DEV: Prioritize full name when display\_name\_on\_posts active by janzenisaac · Pull Request #16078 · discourse/discourse · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/16078) I can confirm.

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### Author: ![zogstrip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zogstrip/32/512781_2.png) [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2025, 5:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quotes-in-full-name-mess-up-quote-markdown/391153/4 "2025-12-12T17:49:42Z")

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> [@RGJ](#):
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> Is there a safe way of escaping quote characters in MD ?

I’m afraid there isn’t :frowning:

The simplest and safest is to strip them, not ideal, but better than broken I guess? :man_shrugging:

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/36666](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/36666)

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### Author: ![RGJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/rgj/32/523185_2.png) [@RGJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RGJ)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2025, 5:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quotes-in-full-name-mess-up-quote-markdown/391153/5 "2025-12-12T17:54:28Z")

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Wow, that was fast :slight_smile: Thank you!

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### Author: ![zogstrip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zogstrip/32/512781_2.png) [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2025, 10:05am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quotes-in-full-name-mess-up-quote-markdown/391153/6 "2025-12-18T10:05:05Z")

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