Protecting Punctuation

I know that it is possible to have punctuation marks such as hyphens and apostrophes appear within cloud words, because I can manually edit the entries and add them.

However, I am trying to enter lots of text at once, using the "Get tags from text" option. When I do this, these punctuation marks get stripped out. Is there a way to format my text to protect these marks when they are input via the "Get tags from text" option?

Thanks very much for your help.

Steve

There is only one tricky option to do it that is to paste proper API xml into "Get tags from text" like below:

<tags>
    <tag angle="0"
         color="3488BF"
         font="Linux Libertine Regular"
         url="http://tagul.com"
         weight="130">Tagul</tag>
    <tag url="http://google.com/search?q=money" weight="18">money</tag>
    <tag url="http://google.com/search?q=tag" weight="12">tag</tag>
    <tag url="http://google.com/search?q=cloud" weight="7">cloud</tag>
    <tag url="http://google.com/search?q=html" weight="23">html</tag>
    <tag url="http://google.com/search?q=web" weight="21">web</tag>
</tags>