Mailing list contained posts with acute accent for apostrophe.

[Tae Wong]

The acute accent (´) is a special apostrophe if the user has no
experience or can't type in the apostrophe (or the grave accent: `).
You don't use Python but you aren't subscribed to this list (so
non-subscribers can post).

Example of special quotes: `xxx´

An example of a post on the python-list mailing list is:
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2001-February/075469.html
(posted in February 2001)