Translation of quotation marks in French

Hi,

I have been helping translating content in French (mostly fr_CA) for a few months now.

One thing that bugs me is that single quotes (apostrophes, in French), seem to often be translated by '

While I understand this is the ASCII code for apostrophes, they somehow do not render as apostrophes, they render as '

Because of that, I have been replacing this string by the actual quote character (i.e. ‘) for a while in fr_CA.

I would now want to do the same for the fr locale, but I am not sure if it would be frowned upon.

Messages containing these are rendered as in this screen capture: