Suppose I’ve got a tag of “Bob’s clothes”. If I use the {exp:tag:tag_name} tag to show that tag, it displays “Bob\‘s clothes”. I know I can remove the slash in PHP, but do I really have to resort to that?

Sandwich,

There’s no other way currently to do this…
I’ll note this as a bug and have it fixed for the next release.

Sorry for the inconvenience, and thank you for noting this.

Yar.

This is now fixed with the new version of Tag 2.5
http://www.solspace.com/forums/viewthread/661/