Glad I’m not the only one then I guess. Well maybe. If it was just me then I could maybe fix it.
I usually see it in conjunctions if I’m saying that right. Like between the I and m in I’m.
Actually, no. conjumction is a word like and, but, so, etc. that connect two separate sentences to make a connected thought.
What you are referring to is apostrophes, and two together would be a quotation mark. The simple list of characters does not have left or right apostrophes or quotation marks. When the code for them is pasted into the Free Republic interpreter to be posted on line. it has no value for the code, but replaces the cod with something else, which is what you see when the codes are sent on to your computer.
This effect also is caused when other fancy characters like an em dash, or another strange punctuation mark is put in the text by a word processor software font face.