Apostrophe ‘ breaks the shortcode

Resolved mrprainx
(@mrprainx)

1 year, 2 months ago
Hello. First of all thank you for this great plugin! Works like a charm, it’s light, effective and stylish.

I’m implementing a simple button using the shortcode. I’ve noticed that using an apostrophe ( ‘ ) inside a location attribute of a sub-event breaks the shortcode and prevent the button to render. Is this a known issue? Is there already a workaround? I’ve tried using the HTML code (') but it’s not “translated” in the location string when added to the chosen calendar.

Example:
```
[add-to-calendar-button name="MY EVENT" organizer="Marco|[email protected]" options="'Apple','Google','iCal','Microsoft365','MicrosoftTeams','Outlook.com','Yahoo'" buttonStyle="round" language="it" timeZone="Europe/Rome" dates='

    {

      "name":"1/2 - MY EVENT",

       "description":"First Day",

      "startDate":"2025-05-09",

      "location":"Via dell'Acquedotto Romano 155, Roma, Italia"

    },

    {

      "name":"2/2 - MY EVENT",

       "description":"Second Day",

      "startDate":"2025-05-10",

      "location":"Via dell'Impero Romano 120, Roma, Italia"

    }

 ']
```
As you can see in both locations there is an apostrophe in the address. This prevents the button to show up.

If I change the addresses in something like
```
"location":"Via Acquedotto Romano 155, Roma, Italia"
```
and
```
"location":"Via Impero Romano 120, Roma, Italia"
```
everything works fine. Unfortunately, apostrophe is a very important punctuation mark in Italian (and other languages).

Thank you.

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Plugin Contributor Jens Kuerschner
(@jekuer)

1 year, 2 months ago
Hi there!

This is not a misbehavior of the plugin, but a misconfiguration of your shortcode.
You are starting the dates-attribute with a single quote. Therefore, the single quote in your location is ending the attribute.

You have 2 options here:
1. You use a special character. Not encoding it, but actually copying the character, like this one: ’
2. You do not use a single quote for the dates object, but rather for example ´
Thread Starter mrprainx
(@mrprainx)

1 year, 2 months ago

Oh! Now I see.

Great. Thank you @jekuer

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