Absolutely not, the Unicode Standard explicitly states that U+2019 (’) RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK “is the preferred character to use for apostrophe”. You can s

Absolutely not, the Unicode Standard explicitly states that U+2019 (’) RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK “is the preferred character to use for apostrophe”. You can see this in the code chart at https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2000.pdf https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2000.pdf and it is restated in section “Apostrophes”, 6.2 General Punctuation.