I opened a forum thread in https://community.metabrainz.org/t/acute-and-grave-accents-as-apostrophes/746180 to get some more feedback on this.

If we are fairly sure that almost all uses are just meant to be apostrophes then we could change it to be automatically replaced by them - it does seem a bit strong a step, but...

There are many recordings and tracks added with space acute space instead of apostrophe in their titles, because of this "bug".

I have a search for them and I regularly fix them, but it's endless.

I was really wondering why so many stuff like this...
Today, I understood the root cause of this, and it's exactly this ticket!

Guess case don't handle ´ so that if you for instance guess case on "I´m Alive" it becomes "I ´ M Alive" instead of "I'm Alive".

reosarevok

Well, why should it handle U+00B4 ACUTE ACCENT as an apostrophe?

Because apparently "many" tracklists copied from internet do contain acute instead of apostrophe.

Of the 28 artists that currently have an acute in their name, there are two for which it might be correct (one has a name consisting of symbols only, the other is Thai, and I don't know the Thai writing system to decide whether it's right or not). There are also 1396 track names; I had a look at a random sample of 20, and the acute is never right there - should either be an apostrophe or be removed altogether ("No. 32 Buth thou dids´t not leave").

The non-combining acute accent has few legitimate uses, but is relatively often used instead of an apostrophe by people (in particular MacOS users in my experience, for some reason). So this does have a point.

Well, why should it handle U+00B4 ACUTE ACCENT as an apostrophe?