Not a ‘,`or a ‘. We need a ’
No combination of key mashing produces the desired result. Google documentation is less than helpful.
On review the font here also doesn’t show what I mean:(
My iPhone keyboard shows `‘’’ 4 distinct single quotes. The last one is just a straight line. How do I produce that on a Chromebook keyboard?
Superscript lowercase “L” in a sans-serif font?l
Probably not what you are looking for… Is it just a font limitation?
Are you looking to type this?:
’
I’m actually using a Chromebook to type my '.
It’s the key to the right of the colon for me - the one that gives me @ if I use the shift function.
Bear in mind that some applications (like word processors or the editing tools of web pages can coerce simple apostrophes into matched opening and closing single quote marks even if you didn’t want it to.
‘I typed apostrophes around this sentence.’
Look for a “smart quote” setting in your app. Or usually if you just undo the autocorrect it’ll go back to a dumb apostrophe.
There are a lot of very similar looking symbols in ASCII and Unicode: single quote, right single quote, left single quote, apostrophe, various accent marks, and so on.
What I think you’re looking for is called “single quote” in ASCII with decimal code 39 (hexadecimal 27). The identical symbol is confusingly called “apostrophe” in Unicode with code U+0027 (that’s hexadecimal because Unicode numbers are almost always given in hexadecimal). The fact they both have hex codes of [00]27 is not a coincidence, it’s because ASCII is a subset of Unicode.
I don’t use a Chromebook, so there may be an easier way than what I describe below. My understanding is that you can enter a Unicode character in Chromebook with the combination Ctrl+Shift+U followed by the four-digit code, in this case 0027. How that character is actually rendered depends on the application, so it may or may not show up on the screen or printed page the way you intend it to.
If the above procedure works but you find it burdensome (as I would), perhaps you can use the “wrong” character as you type along and later use your application’s find-and-replace function to fix it.
Hmm.
I know you’ve given several correct answers.
I need to give more information.
My daughter is working/playing with an app for French idiom on her (provided by the school) Chromebook.
She’s translating “it is”(or rather the Dutch equivalent) with “c’est” . Which should be correct (it is how it is in the accompanying list). The only obvious difference we’re seeing is the shape of the apostrophe in her answer and the “correct” answer.
The correct answer has a straight single quote, her answer has a curly quote (as all quotes are rendered on this site, at least on my iPhone).
So I’m hoping that someone with a better understanding of the keyboard settings in a Chromebook can help us. I cannot believe she’s supposed to type in a Unicode code. (Even if that is obviously a correct method)
Have you tried copying it from somewhere else and pasting it in? Or is that un-possible in the app she’s using?
Yes, that is how I’d do it normally.
I just want to believe, led to do so by the simple appearance of the app, that there is an even simpler solution.
Did you test that the pasted value works? To test your theory that the wrong symbol is being used?
Because apps can show any characters however they choose. You may see it as a way-too-curly single quote but you’re actually typing a simple “straight” quote, but the font renders it looking curly, and you’re going down the wrong path for the quiz answer.
I didn’t try the C/P method. I felt that to be wrong for a quiz 
I did try the “ ‘ key and the ~ ` key, with the keyboard on US INTL and NLD
What website is this? They might be adding it by accident on the translation, and there might be a workaround, but hard to say without seeing it happen.
And does it only happen on that one website? What happens if she types “c’est” into Google search or whatever?
The OP said it was an “app”, so perhaps it’s not a website. If it’s a website, it’s possible that the browser is doing the conversion. It’s also possible that a non-US keyboard is selected. In that case, press CTRL-SPACE repeatedly until the keyboard balloon says “US”.
In Microsoft Word, it technically writes a straight quote and then immediately turns it into a fancy curved one (this can also be turned off). But if you want to change that one single quote, you can Ctrl+Z to undo and it will undo the last step which is converting it to fancy. I realize this doesn’t help you in your app or even necessarily on a Chromebook, but maybe it works there too? Or you can use the word processing app to at least do similar and copy-paste.
Another option: try Ctrl+Shift+U then type 0027