[fw-general] Strange problem with displaying text

[Deepak]

Hi all,

I am having strange issue displaying the quote character (single or
double quotes). The text I entered like
========
Marak's
"Earth Hour"
========
is displayed like this
===================
Mark\\\'s
\\\\\\\"Earth Hour\\\\\\\"
===================

The query result is inside the <pre> element

My backend DB is MySQL with ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8
COLLATE=utf8_unicode_ci

In my bootstrap I have:
==================
$pdoParams = array(PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_INIT_COMMAND => 'SET NAMES UTF8;');

$dbParams = array('host'                        =>  
$appConf->database->hostname,
                  'username'                    =>  
$appConf->database->username,
                  'password'                    =>  
$appConf->database->password,
                  'dbname'                      =>  
$appConf->database->database,
                  'driver_options'      =>  $pdoParams
                  );
==================

In my view script I used $this->escape(<variable>)


Any suggestion is greatly appreciated.

Thanks