Escaping quotes in comment tags

[thewessidestory]

I am trying to save comments with various quotation marks and newlines in them. I've been using the "-ec" tag to allow c-style strings, but I get a lot of errors indicating incorrect escaping but can't seem to figure out what it's expecting.

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exiftool -ec -EXIF:UserComment="บังเอิญมากกกก! นัดเจอ my friend แต่เจอ Mike! \nCan't believe they're here at \"The Forum\" right now!" -overwrite_original file.jpg
Returns: "quote> "

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exiftool -ec -EXIF:UserComment='บังเอิญมากกกก! นัดเจอ my friend แต่เจอ Mike! \nCan\'t believe they\'re here at "The Forum" right now!'' -overwrite_original file.jpg
Returns: "Error: File not found - believe
Error: File not found - they're
Error: File not found - here
Error: File not found - at
Error: File not found - The Forum
Error: File not found - right
Error: File not found - now!
    1 image files updated
    7 files weren't updated due to errors"

I've tried a bunch of less conventional methods of escaping as well. What is the correct way of doing this?

[Phil Harvey]

Quoting is a function of the command shell you are using, but you haven't told us which one that is.

- Phil