diff --git a/share/completions/aptitude.fish b/share/completions/aptitude.fish
index 27e43602c..a4f19c423 100644
--- a/share/completions/aptitude.fish
+++ b/share/completions/aptitude.fish
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ complete -c aptitude -n '__fish_apt_use_package' -a '(__fish_print_packages)'  -
 complete -c aptitude -s h -l help  --description 'Display a brief help message. Identical to the help action'
 complete -f -n '__fish_apt_no_subcommand' -c aptitude -a 'autoclean'  --description 'Remove any cached packages which can no longer be downloaded'
 complete -f -n '__fish_apt_no_subcommand' -c aptitude -a 'clean'  --description 'Remove all downloaded .deb files from the package cache directory'
-complete -f -n '__fish_apt_no_subcommand' -c aptitude -a 'forget-new'  --description 'Forget all internal information about what packages are “new”'
+complete -f -n '__fish_apt_no_subcommand' -c aptitude -a 'forget-new'  --description 'Forget all internal information about what packages are \'new\''
 complete -f -n '__fish_apt_no_subcommand' -c aptitude -a 'keep-all'  --description 'Cancel all scheduled actions on all packages'
 complete -f -n '__fish_apt_no_subcommand' -c aptitude -a 'update'  --description 'Update the list of available packages from the apt sources'
 complete -f -n '__fish_apt_no_subcommand' -c aptitude -a 'upgrade'  --description 'Upgrade installed packages to their most recent version'
diff --git a/share/completions/gcc.fish b/share/completions/gcc.fish
index de98c426e..b6a179a05 100644
--- a/share/completions/gcc.fish
+++ b/share/completions/gcc.fish
@@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ complete -c gcc -o fsched-verbose --description 'On targets that use instruction
 complete -c gcc -o save-temps --description 'Store the usual "temporary" intermediate files permanently; place them in the current directory and name them based on the source file'
 complete -c gcc -o time --description 'Report the CPU time taken by each subprocess in the compilation sequence'
 complete -c gcc -o fvar-tracking --description 'Run variable tracking pass'
-complete -c gcc -o print-file-name -r --description 'Print the full absolute name of the library file library that would be used when linking---and don’t do anything else'
+complete -c gcc -o print-file-name -r --description 'Print the full absolute name of the library file library that would be used when linking---and don\'t do anything else'
 complete -c gcc -o print-multi-directory --description 'Print the directory name corresponding to the multilib selected by any other switches present in the command line'
 complete -c gcc -o print-multi-lib --description 'Print the mapping from multilib directory names to compiler switches that enable them'
 complete -c gcc -o print-prog-name -r --description 'Like -print-file-name, but searches for a program such as cpp'