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Originally Posted by fogice
I think that might be the font; try a different font and see if the spacing issue goes away.
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Yes. Following enlarged and in Georgia for clarity:
So-called Smart punctuation is simply correct punctuation using “ ” ‘ ’ ’, double quotes, single quotes, possessive indication and apostrophe for missing letter(s). A Word Processor may put ‘87 or ‘tis as an opening quote instead of apostrophe (correctly ’87 or ’tis), so not that smart. There is also ′ and ″ for feet/inches, minutes/seconds (prime and double prime). A wordprocessor usually incorrectly has 5’ 6” instead of 5′ 6″
The ' and " are 19th Century typewriter symbols. A typesetter would have used context to put the correct symbol. The ' might sometimes be valid in dictionaries or transliteration of a foreign alphabet and word.
The teletype based on 19th C. USA typewriter (including @ for quantity at price) in 1928. That then was used in 1940s for computers and then from 1970s for most personal computers and minicomputers and IBM-PC from 1980-81.
Unsmartening punctuation is crazy. Your font or ebook is broken if the spacing is wrong for proper punctuation marks. The closing single quote and dual function apostrophe are all the same symbol in English, but not in many languages even using Latin-Roman alphabet.