It was just a couple of weeks ago that I got annoyed by "man ascii" on some Linux system showing me a dash instead of an apostrophe for character 39. Of course

It was just a couple of weeks ago that I got annoyed by "man ascii" on some Linux system showing me a dash instead of an apostrophe for character 39. Of course it wasn't actually a dash, but it was an apostrophe converted somehow into a character 180 (which in ISO 8859 is an acute accent), at least that's what "man ascii | hexdump -C" told me. My terminal settings were set in such a way that it came out as a dash. How exactly it got to be a dash is not really the problem. What it should show is a character 39 apostrophe, because that's exactly what it should be showing there! Ironically, the character 45 dash is shown for me as a character 45 dash, just as it should.