Cannot use Apostrophe in email

[Jane Blonde]

Hi Guys,

We cannot add an email address with an apostrophe, for example DavidO'Byrne@…

Is this a bug or a policy decision?

Is there a work around?

David

[dingo_d]

Hi Jane!

Can you share in which context this email fails to work? Is this when you try to register a user? Are plugins installed which are modifying some email validation functionality?

Is this related to your personal site or wordpress.org?

More information is needed in order to see what the problem is, and if this issue is valid for trac, or if it should be asked in support forums.

The is_email function will accept the apostrophe character.

[Jane Blonde]

This issue happens when adding or updating a user via the users admin interface, there is Woocommerce which allows apostrophes into customer detail, and Profile Builder and Obfuscate Email.

The error is "ERROR E-mail:The email you entered is not a valid email address."

I've debugged all 3 and found that the problem only occurs when Profile Builder is active.

Thanks for this, hopefully this helps others going forward, I couldn't find anything on the web.

DDH

[dingo_d]

Glad you were able to debug the problem :)

You can contact the authors of the Profile Builder plugin ​https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/profile-builder/ so that they can debug the issue.

Good luck!