awe

I don’t think it’s WordPress’ fault. Slash escaping is a documented part of MySQL.

I asked Brinkster if they had a 5.0.22 install they could move me to and got my hopes high when they said ‘yes’. It turned out to just be 5.0.19 and they don’t actually have anything higher. Go Brinkster support!

I have this problem too.

I think the bit at the end of that article is what the problem is. I’d say since my phpMyAdmin is telling me that the MySQL version running is 5.0.15-nt that Brinkster has taken the second option.

Rather than upgrading to 5.0.22, they have taken the
sql-mode=NO_BACKSLASH_ESCAPES approach. *cough* slack *cough*

I’m guessing that the backslash escaping for apostrophes is tightly built in to WordPress?