To entitize or not to entitize JDBC result

I am comparing the contents of 2 tables by looping through one of them (JDBC datasource) and fetching the corresponding record from the other table by key with a JDBC fetch request.

The JDBC fetch results seems to entitize the result when a & is in the string. For example:

<Results>
    <ResultSet fetchSize="0">
        <Row rowNumber="1">
            <SUPPLIER_ID>2335</SUPPLIER_ID>
            <NAME>Example Arts &amp; Crafts Imp. &amp; Exp Corp.</NAME>
        </Row>
    </ResultSet>
</Results>

So to get the test working, I also set Entitize to on for the JDBC Data Source.

But when an apostrophe is part of the string, the JDBC request does not entitize it:

<Results>
    <ResultSet fetchSize="0">
        <Row rowNumber="1">
            <SUPPLIER_ID>2386</SUPPLIER_ID>
            <NAME>Z's Trading Company Limited </NAME>
        </Row>
    </ResultSet>
</Results>

But the JDBC datasource is entitizing as follows:
Z's Trading Company Limited

Questions:
- Is this a bug in entitizing?
- Is there a way to not entitize the result of a JDBC request?