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To save space by condensing multiple characters into one. ´ is and always has been the accute accent character. ` is the grave accent
and the opening quotation mark character.
Why would anyone using - as a minus sign be correct when it's at least half an en too narrow? Why would anyone use / as fraction slash when it's a few degrees too vertical? Why would anyone use ' as an apostrophe when it's far too straight?
Of course using Unicode is unambiguous and correct, but even then they invent a clusterfuck of repeated glyphs and you don't know which one to use. Em dashes and en dashes and so on are fine. But do I want the vertical typewriter apostrophe, the punctuation apostrophe, or the letter apostrophe? Do I want the solidus (which isn't even a solidus), the fraction slash or the division slash? Unicode is a complete mess and I think they make half this stuff purposefully obtuse just to be twats.