Polynesians are using 0027 as a fallback, and this has to do with education, keyboarding, and training.
The typography of the fallback is of no consequence. It’s a fallback.
> On 27 Jan 2019, at 01:43, Richard Wordingham via Unicode <unicode_at_unicode.org> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 26 Jan 2019 17:11:49 -0800
> Asmus Freytag via Unicode <unicode_at_unicode.org> wrote:
>
>> To make matters worse, users for languages that "should" use U+02BC
>> aren't actually consistent; much data uses U+2019 or U+0027. Ordinary
>> users can't tell the difference (and spell checkers seem not
>> successful in enforcing the practice).
>
> That appears to contradict Michael Everson's remark about a Polynesian
> need to distinguish the two visually.
>
> Richard.
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