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Why does Illustrator turn the apostrophe (') into a greater sign (>)?
When I type (') it turns into (>) (check below):

When I type (') it turns into (>) (check below):

Thank you. This helped.
For anyone wondering, see the screenshot. The place that says English: USA was set to Arabic. This was the cause of the issue.

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