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URL: https://forums.webwiz.net/forum_posts.asp?TID=31822
Printed Date: 27 March 2026 at 9:22pm
Software Version: Web Wiz Forums 12.08 - https://www.webwizforums.com

Topic: Search issue: Forum software modifies punctuation

Posted By: aaronk
Subject: Search issue: Forum software modifies punctuation
Date Posted: 01 April 2025 at 3:05pm

Hello! My site has been using Web Wiz Forums for over 20 years, and one thing that has always been an issue is searching for topic subjects that include an apostrophe or quotation marks. My developer says that in the MS Access database tables, those punctuation marks are changed to other characters, but then when a search is performed the characters are not changed. As a result, trying to find a topic subject with the word "don't" or "can't" will yield no results.

Is there a workaround or fix for this?

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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 02 April 2025 at 8:00am

Thank you for pointing this out, this has been fixed for the next release, which will be 12.08.

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Posted By: aaronk
Date Posted: 02 April 2025 at 3:44pm

Amazing! I look forward to the new release!