diff --git a/inxi b/inxi
index 2c83079..a873587 100755
--- a/inxi
+++ b/inxi
@@ -3755,7 +3755,7 @@ get_lsb_os_release_data()
 				}
 				# clean out unwanted characters
 				{ 
-					gsub(/\"/,"", $0 )
+					gsub(/\\|\"|[:\47]/,"", $0 )
 					gsub(/^[[:space:]]+|[[:space:]]+$/, "", $2 )
 					gsub(/^[[:space:]]+|[[:space:]]+$/, "", $1 )
 				}
@@ -3809,7 +3809,7 @@ s					if ( $2 != "n/a" ) {
 				}
 				# clean out unwanted characters
 				{ 
-					gsub(/\"/,"", $0 )
+					gsub(/\\|\"|[:\47]/,"", $0 )
 					gsub(/^[[:space:]]+|[[:space:]]+$/, "", $2 )
 					gsub(/^[[:space:]]+|[[:space:]]+$/, "", $1 )
 				}
@@ -3840,7 +3840,7 @@ s					if ( $2 != "n/a" ) {
 				}
 				# clean out unwanted characters
 				{ 
-					gsub(/\"/,"", $0 )
+					gsub(/\\|\"|[:\47]/,"", $0 )
 					gsub(/^[[:space:]]+|[[:space:]]+$/, "", $2 )
 					gsub(/^[[:space:]]+|[[:space:]]+$/, "", $1 )
 				}