[colanderman]

This is a perfect example of why I don't like to take silly shortcuts based on tenuous assumptions like the GP suggests.

Assumptions, more often than not, (1) change, (2) are understood differently by others, and/or (3) (as in this case) are flat-out wrong. Code that takes "advantage" of such silly assumptions usually (1) are poor examples to coders new to the project, (2) complicate reviewing the code for correctness, and (3) waste brain-time figuring out when they can (and can't) be applied.

Just escape everything that should be, whether you think you know what it is/where it came from or not.