Single quotes in labels of arff files

Single quotes in Weka are used to surround strings with spaces or other special characters (see spaces in labels of ARFF files). If some of your labels contain single quotes, you have to escape them with a backslash. For example, the name of one of Alexandre Duma's musketeers is

D'Artagnan

and needs to be quoted and escaped as follows

'D\'Artagnan'

Using the Weka API, you can use the quote(String) method of the weka.core.Utils class for doing this:

import weka.core.Utils;
...
String raw = "D'Artagnan";
String escaped = Utils.quote(raw);