Title: Variations Bug
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Variations Bug

 *  Resolved [mkurent](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mkurent/)
 * (@mkurent)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/variations-bug/)
 * We have an item that has a dash in the name:
 * Product name – Sub name
 * Each product has variations.
 * The problem is that ‘-‘ in the variations is changed to & #8211;
 * As a result & #211; comes out in Google Analytics, shipping labels, etc.
 * This HTML tag is added in the variation creation process and we cannot control
   it.
    When looking into the database (wp_posts) the parent product has ‘-‘ but
   all the variations have & #8211;
 * Do you have any idea how to solve this?
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 * Last reply from: [mkurent](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mkurent/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/variations-bug/)
 * Status: resolved