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Originally Posted by Jellby
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. |
Jellby -
I pay little attention to the code, I read the text
It could be that the 'apostrophes' I sometimes see are primes as in feet, inches, minutes and seconds marks. Pretty sure they're not straight quotes, I think I see them most in public domain official & legal texts from courts and tribunals etc, and media transcripts - maybe they come from the transcription technology/services they use.
I don't write the stuff, or republish it, I just download it, skim read it and file it.
But I think I have also seen them in commercial books from UK - would be factual books not fictional.
BR