When “quoteleft” should look like an apostrophe

Nick Shinn
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I’m presently doing some proprietary display fonts for an American company, and am considering making the <quoteleft> identical to the <quoteright>.
I figure that the quoteleft character will never get used—unless an app “smart-quotes” it for an apostrophe at the beginning of abbreviated words, in which case it should indeed look like an apostrophe.
Here’s the frequent fail that occurs with a previous font, that has the “correct” glyph.
What could possibly go wrong? And if it did, would that be worse than the present fail?

I figure that the quoteleft character will never get used—unless an app “smart-quotes” it for an apostrophe at the beginning of abbreviated words, in which case it should indeed look like an apostrophe.
Here’s the frequent fail that occurs with a previous font, that has the “correct” glyph.
What could possibly go wrong? And if it did, would that be worse than the present fail?

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Nick Shinn said:I figure that the quoteleft character will never get used—unless an app “smart-quotes” it for an apostrophe at the beginning of abbreviated words, in which case it should indeed look like an apostrophe.
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Nick Shinn said:Here’s the frequent fail that occurs with a previous font, that has the “correct” glyph.
What could possibly go wrong? And if it did, would that be worse than the present fail?1 -
wouldn't it also trigger in the case of ‘simple quotes’ typed as apostrophes at the beginning of words?
1) for a display type, quote marks are highly unlikely
2) the norm in North America is double quotes
3) the occurrences would be far fewer than the usual “smart quote” fail0
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