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Hello.
Whenever I put the following onblur command in the "HTML Form Element Attributes" property of a select list on my form, either the " or one or more of the single quotes gets turned into an upside-down question mark, and thus the command does not work.

onblur="redirect('f?p=&APP_ID.:1:&SESSION.:Vessel_Display:::P1_Permit_Number,
P1_Fishing_Year,P1_Tags_Requested,P1_Vendor,P1_Category:$v(`P1_PERMIT_NUMBER'),
$v(`P1_FISHING_YEAR'),$v(`P1_TAGS_REQUESTED'),$v(`P1_VENDOR'),$v(`P1_CATEGORY')')"

Why is this happening and how can I prevent it? Thanks.