diff --git a/wp-admin/admin-functions.php b/wp-admin/admin-functions.php
index 7bf35055cd..e6d1afabee 100644
--- a/wp-admin/admin-functions.php
+++ b/wp-admin/admin-functions.php
@@ -561,7 +561,7 @@ function add_link() {
 
 function edit_link( $link_id = '' ) {
 	if (!current_user_can( 'manage_links' ))
-		wp_die( __( 'Cheatin&8217; uh?' ));
+		wp_die( __( 'Cheatin’ uh?' ));
 
 	$_POST['link_url'] = wp_specialchars( $_POST['link_url'] );
 	$_POST['link_url'] = preg_match('/^(https?|ftps?|mailto|news|irc|gopher|nntp|feed|telnet):/is', $_POST['link_url']) ? $_POST['link_url'] : 'http://' . $_POST['link_url'];
diff --git a/wp-admin/categories.php b/wp-admin/categories.php
index a1017270e1..f7a04f9aa9 100644
--- a/wp-admin/categories.php
+++ b/wp-admin/categories.php
@@ -34,10 +34,10 @@ case 'delete':
 
 	// Don't delete the default cats.
     if ( $cat_ID == get_option('default_category') )
-		wp_die(sprintf(__("Can&8217;t delete the <strong>%s</strong> category: this is the default one"), $cat_name));
+		wp_die(sprintf(__("Can&#8217;t delete the <strong>%s</strong> category: this is the default one"), $cat_name));
 
     if ( $cat_ID == get_option('default_link_category') )
-		wp_die(sprintf(__("Can&8217;t delete the <strong>%s</strong> category: this is the default one for links"), $cat_name));
+		wp_die(sprintf(__("Can&#8217;t delete the <strong>%s</strong> category: this is the default one for links"), $cat_name));
 
 	wp_delete_category($cat_ID);
 
diff --git a/wp-admin/export.php b/wp-admin/export.php
index 80439ffb82..7dc26fc21e 100644
--- a/wp-admin/export.php
+++ b/wp-admin/export.php
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ require_once ('admin-header.php');
 <div class="narrow">
 <p><?php _e('When you click the button below WordPress will create an XML file for you to save to your computer.'); ?></p>
 <p><?php _e('This format, which we call WordPress eXtended RSS or WXR, will contain your posts, comments, custom fields, and categories.'); ?></p>
-<p><?php _e('Once you&8217;ve saved the download file, you can use the Import function on another WordPress blog to import this blog.'); ?></p>
+<p><?php _e('Once you&#8217;ve saved the download file, you can use the Import function on another WordPress blog to import this blog.'); ?></p>
 <form action="" method="get">
 <h3><?php _e('Optional options'); ?></h3>
 
diff --git a/wp-admin/link-add.php b/wp-admin/link-add.php
index 2f7ed78282..fca6c3e7b5 100644
--- a/wp-admin/link-add.php
+++ b/wp-admin/link-add.php
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ require('admin-header.php');
 
 <div id="wp-link-bookmarklet"  class="wrap">
 <h3><?php _e('Add Link Bookmarklet'); ?></h3>
-<p><?php _e('Right click on the following link and choose "Bookmark This Link..." to create an add link shortcut. Right now this only works on Mozilla or Netscape, but we&8217;re working on it.'); ?></p>
+<p><?php _e('Right click on the following link and choose "Bookmark This Link..." to create an add link shortcut. Right now this only works on Mozilla or Netscape, but we&#8217;re working on it.'); ?></p>
 <?php printf('<p><a href="%s" title="'.__('Link add bookmarklet').'">'.__('Link This').'</a></p>', "javascript:void(linkmanpopup=window.open('" . get_option('siteurl') . "/wp-admin/link-add.php?action=popup&amp;linkurl='+escape(location.href)+'&amp;name='+escape(document.title),'LinkManager','scrollbars=yes,width=750,height=550,left=15,top=15,status=yes,resizable=yes'));linkmanpopup.focus();window.focus();linkmanpopup.focus();") ?>
 </div>
 
diff --git a/wp-admin/plugins.php b/wp-admin/plugins.php
index 0db77d616e..94d461d3e5 100644
--- a/wp-admin/plugins.php
+++ b/wp-admin/plugins.php
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ $plugins = get_plugins();
 
 if (empty($plugins)) {
 	echo '<p>';
-	_e("Couldn&8217;t open plugins directory or there are no plugins available."); // TODO: make more helpful
+	_e("Couldn&#8217;t open plugins directory or there are no plugins available."); // TODO: make more helpful
 	echo '</p>';
 } else {
 ?>