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ISO 3166-2 apostophe inconsistencies

In ISO 3166-2 (and perhaps other formats too) different apostrophes are used. This is okay as long as they don't vary within regions of a country. See e.g. ‘Ajmān (first character) and Ra’s al Khaymah (third character) for Emirate. Perhaps some automated detection can be useful and subsequent upstream reporting?