You got me curious about some of this (and any distraction is a good distraction
), and I found a few things.
Take a look at the LO v5 release notes
here. Near the top, about Writer, is a section "Emoji and in-word replacement support". It offers an interesting way to insert Unicode characters. I found it because one example is:
:': → ’ (apostrophe, U+2019)
Obviously you could do that with U+02BC too.
And while browsing I found this:
Which Unicode character should represent the English apostrophe? (And why the Unicode committee is very wrong.)
And only partly relevant, but I thought interesting, was
Being an Apostrophe. In particular:
Quote:
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The apostrophe is not a punctuation mark. It doesn’t punctuate. Punctuation marks are placed between units (sentences, clauses, phrases, words, morphemes) to signal structure, boundaries, or pauses. The apostrophe appears within words. It’s a 27th letter of the alphabet. This issue concerns spelling.
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