Scripsit Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn:

> I think you would agree that it would make especially English text
> with quotations in direct speech (say, in a novel where one person
> tells another what a third said) quite badly legible if somewhere
> there is an apostrophe represented by ’ in the inner quotation,

No I wouldn't. Such usage is _standard_ English, to the extent anything
is standard in English. Consult the applicable style guide and then the
Unicode Standard, which identifies the punctuation marks at the level of
coded characters.

> Since apostrophes appear to occur quite often in English texts, I have
> therefore decided that in my English texts, ' (the straight
> apostrophe, ' or ') is the appropriate character for all
> apostrophes

That's computerize or typewriterese - abhorred, disliked, and frowned
upon by typographers and grammars.

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Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/