# Form creates duplicates of companies that contain ampersands/apostrophes

**URL:** <https://forum.mautic.org/t/form-creates-duplicates-of-companies-that-contain-ampersands-apostrophes/12380>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [January 21, 2020, 12:25pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/form-creates-duplicates-of-companies-that-contain-ampersands-apostrophes/12380 "2020-01-21T12:25:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![cemarkus](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/cemarkus/32/433_2.png) [@cemarkus](https://forum.mautic.org/u/cemarkus)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2020, 12:25pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/form-creates-duplicates-of-companies-that-contain-ampersands-apostrophes/12380/1 "2020-01-21T12:25:49Z")

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**Your software**  
My Mautic version is: 2.15.3  
My PHP version is: 7.2.24

**Your problem**  
My problem is:  
Hello guys,  
when someone uses a ampersand (&) or apostrophe (’) in a company form field, Mautic creates two entries for this company. At first sight the names seem to be identical, but I realized that the difference is that obviously the ampersand is saved in one case as “&amp” and in the other as “&#38”. You can see that, when you move the mouse over the related links.

Does anyone have the same issue? Any idea for a solution?