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Originally Posted by BetterRed
I've found that real apostrophes are used where they ought be used (contractions and possessives) and single quotes are used around dialogue and quotes.
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What do you mean? When done properly (curly), the apostrophe and the closing single quote are exactly the same character, there's no automatic way to tell which is which, that's the root of the problem. Do you mean that apostrophes are straight and quotes are curly? I would replace that at once, it's so typewriterish...
When I code ebooks, I sometimes use ’ for the quote and ’ for the apostrophe. These are just synonyms for the same U+2019 character, but at least they are easy to tell in the code.