It's your keyboard layout. acme does no such thing to my knowledge. Also it has nothing to do with the font. I assume you use p9p acme on Mac OS X based on your last letter. So I can't help you more.
2013/12/14 Blake McBride <bl...@mcbride.name> > Greetings, > > While working with acme I had a problem with spell checking. > Investigating, I discovered that my setup of acme is not using normal > single quotes or hyphens. Instead of inserting what all other editors > insert when I hit my single quote or dash keys, acme is inserting some > other (2 byte?) character. I understand unicode but I am American-English. > My compiler and spell checker expect single byte, standard ASCII codes for > dash and single quotes. I absolutely can't use acme like this. > > I am using the standard font. Is there a way for me to correct this > behavior? > > Thanks. > > Blake McBride > >