That really stinks. I can't imagine how annoying that must get. I work at an email service provider, and I deal with about two billion email addresses from all

That really stinks. I can't imagine how annoying that must get. I work at an email service provider, and I deal with about two billion email addresses from all around the world. Apostrophes are certainly a consideration when working with emails, loading them to and from databases. But the spec for what's a valid email is very very wide. Lots of special characters including apostrophes are technically valid, so if I'm doing an analysis that requires email as a unique key, but I don't actually need to know the addresses, I'll just hash each address. It's lazy, but man does it solve a lot of special cases.