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StarSword
Since: Sep, 2011
Willbyr
MOD
(Y2K)

This issue has been going on for sometime now. Many tropers, including myself, use iPads as well as Windows. Curly apostrophes (’) are the default on iPads, instead of the industry standard straight apostrophes (') aka 'typewriter apostrophe', we're all accustomed to.
I find it visually irksome and distracting to read through a lengthy page, where the unicode character marks suddenly keep switching back and forth between curly and straight. Its an unrealistic expectation to ask iPad tropers via messaging to turn off "Smart Punctuation" under general keyboard settings.
With the site recently converting all data to UTF 8, is there a way to force straight apostrophes (U+0027) here by default?