Problems with the apostrophe

For what it's worth, I found these six variants of apostrophe in the U.S. character set:

When I look at the word "won't" that you typed in your latest post, it appears as if it uses the modifier letter apostrophe. Is that not what you want?

czpsu wrote:

I tried deactivating the "smart quotes and dashes" option

You may have missed one of the settings. Besides the one in system prefs/keyboard/text, you need to also go in the app to Edit > Substitutions and make sure that Smart Quotes is not checked.

MS Word has its own independent settings for this you need to turn off. (tools > autocorrect > autoformat in 2016)

I don't know how to name the two distinct characters you are referring to, so I'll call the one you want to end up with and claim to be typing "char 1" and the one being substituted in (much to your chagrin) "char 2".

Go to System Preferences > Keyboard > Text and add a replacement there.

I think the appropriate replacement is "Replace char 1 with char 1." It might be "Replace char 2 with char 1."

His standard apostrophe is actually being converted to one you did not include, the Right Single Quote. This normally happens because of "smart quotes" settings being on.

Thank you, Tom! I understand.