Problem showing apostrophe and double quotes, on web page

[karen987]

I have an ASP news page to which you can add comments. The comments open up in a new window, and users can click reply to reply to them after which they are taken to the parent page which has a comment form to fill in. The comments show fine, except when you click reply, and they contain either the " or the ' ie, apostrophe or double quotes, . what happens with the apostrophe is that instead of an

'

it shows


ampersand, hash, 39 and semicolon. (I tried adding them here, but they turned into an apostrophe. so i had to edit this post and type in this sentence)
One of the include files that is the "inc.api.as p" has the code for all this i think, and i think it needs altering somewhere. I'm not sure if it's the parent page inc_api code that needs altering or the pop page which shows the comment.

Here is part of the inc_api.com page with the relevant code which may need fixing. Any suggestions welcome. Thanks in advance

<p>
  <% 
'// REPLACES INVALID CHARS FROM STRING TO BE PASSED INTO JavaScript
'// REPLACES THE FOLLOWING CHARS: "-'-(-) with `-`-[-`]
FUNCTION FIX_JS_STR(val)
Dim TMP_VAL
	TMP_VAL = val
	If Len(TMP_VAL) > 0 Then
		TMP_VAL = Replace(TMP_VAL,chr(34),"&quot;")
		TMP_VAL = Replace(TMP_VAL,"'","`")
		TMP_VAL = Replace(TMP_VAL,"(","[")
		TMP_VAL = Replace(TMP_VAL,")","]")		
	End IF
	FIX_JS_STR = TMP_VAL
END FUNCTION



'// ENCRYPTS STRING SUCH AS PASSWORD
'// Returns encrypted string such as: BTEGE^J] to password
FUNCTION EnCrypt(strCryptThis)
  Dim strChar, iKeyChar, iStringChar, i
  for i = 1 to Len(strCryptThis)
     iKeyChar = Asc(mid("2564218975223456482120840",i,1))
     iStringChar = Asc(mid(strCryptThis,i,1))
     iCryptChar = iKeyChar Xor iStringChar
     strEncrypted =  strEncrypted & Chr(iCryptChar)
  next
  EnCrypt = strEncrypted
END FUNCTION

'// DECRYPT STRING SUCH AS PASSWORD
'// Returns decrypted string such as: password to BTEGE^J]
FUNCTION DeCrypt(strEncrypted)
Dim strChar, iKeyChar, iStringChar, i
  for i = 1 to Len(strEncrypted)
     iKeyChar = (Asc(mid("2564218975223456482120840",i,1)))
     iStringChar = Asc(mid(strEncrypted,i,1))
      iDeCryptChar = iKeyChar Xor iStringChar
     strDecrypted =  strDecrypted & Chr(iDeCryptChar)
  next
  DeCrypt = strDecrypted
END FUNCTION

PRIVATE FUNCTION APO(val)
    Dim tmpSTR
    tmpSTR = val
    IF NOT tmpSTR = "" THEN
        tmpSTR = Replace(Trim(tmpSTR),chr(34),"&quot;")
    	tmpSTR = Replace(Trim(tmpSTR),"'","''")
        tmpSTR = Replace(Trim(tmpSTR),"<","&lt;")
        tmpSTR = Replace(Trim(tmpSTR),">","&gt;")
		IF DB_TO_USE = 3 THEN tmpSTR = Replace(Trim(tmpSTR),"\","\\")
    END IF
    'APO = tmpSTR
	APO = replace(val, "'", "'")	
END FUNCTION

PRIVATE FUNCTION APO_LAX(val)
	Dim strRES
	strRES = Replace(Trim(val),"'","''")
	IF DB_TO_USE = 3 THEN strRES = Replace(Trim(strRES),"\","\\")
	'APO_LAX = strRES
	APO_LAX = replace(val, "'", "'")
END FUNCTION

PRIVATE FUNCTION APO_INJ(val)
    Dim tmpSTR
    tmpSTR = val
    IF NOT tmpSTR = "" THEN
		tmpSTR = Replace(Trim(tmpSTR),chr(34),"&quot;")
        tmpSTR = Replace(Trim(tmpSTR),"<","&lt;")
        tmpSTR = Replace(Trim(tmpSTR),">","&gt;")
		IF DB_TO_USE = 3 THEN tmpSTR = Replace(Trim(tmpSTR),"\","\\")
    END IF
    'APO_INJ = tmpSTR
	APO_INJ = replace(val, "'", "'")
END FUNCTION

[karen987]

I just want to add something,

in the 3 APO statements above there is a line in each which reads
APO_INJ = replace(val, "'", "'")

I just want to say that it doesn't show on this page, but the second apostrophe in the double quotes actually reads, "ampersand, hash, 39, semicolon"

I had to add this here because if you look at the code, it shows an apostrophe instead of the 4 characters . In the acctual inc_api.asp page, the first set shows an actual apostrope between the double quotes, and the second set shows "apersand, hash, 39 and semicolon"

I think this is a glitch in this forum,

Thanks.