Account Name with special characters (Comma, single quotes etc) causing error.

 Hello,

We have an issue where we are using the "Account Name" field to populate the "Account Number" in a custom applet (BC). We get the value of the "Account Name" field and pass it to the BO/BC instance (ClearToQuery, SetSearchSpec and ExecuteQuery) and get the value of the "Account Number" and populate the "Account Number" field.  The issue we face is when there is a special character in the "Account Name" field and this causes the error. How to handle the special characters in the "Account Name" field, which are used to query to fetch the corresponding "Account Number".