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Problem displaying Single Quote / Apostrophe in Thunderbird??

My daily email from a major newspaper is full of crazy stuff like this:
    Concussions won’t slow Broncos’ Welker down.

When I would like to see:
    Concussions won't slow Broncos' Welker down.


Is there some sort of character set war going on?
Is the apostrophe such an exotic beast?
Is there some option I need to find and switch?
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Is this an RSS news feed or an email message?

You have no less control over the source, however with an RSS feed you can validate the source (http://feedvalidator.org/) and tell the originator the validation errors.  I am not an expert in rss feeds or XML, but I would guess that if the DTD (Document Type Declaration or DOCTYPE) was wrong or incomplete then the client wouldn't know how to treat special character replacements like ’

It looks like only a handful of such replacements do not need to be specifically declared:
http://feedvalidator.org/docs/error/UndefinedNamedEntity.html
and   ’   is not one of them, so it would have to be declared
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Thank you d-glitch